Steven Gallagher biography: 10 things about Maumee, Ohio stock trader

Steven Gallagher is an American stock trader from Maumee, Lucas County, Ohio, United States. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He is active day trader in over-the-counter (OTC) securities or penny stocks, which often trade for less than $1 per share.
2. In September 2019, he created a Twitter account using the alias Alex DeLarge. He regularly used the account to tout various penny stocks in which he personally held substantial positions. 
3. In December 2020, he acquiring a substantial volume of shares from a public shell company called SpectraScience, Inc. (SCIE). He either knew or purposely avoided learning that the company had neither prospects for success nor actual operations.
4. From December 2020 through February 2021, he used his Twitter account named Alex DeLarge to operate a fraudulent pump-and-dump scheme with respect to penny stock issued by SCIE.  
5. In January 2021, he repeatedly wrote on Twitter using his Alex DeLarge account that he planned on holding and had not sold any of his shares of SCIE although he had sold millions of SCIE shares at heightened prices.
6. As of October 19, 2021, his Twitter account named Alex DeLarge has more than 70,000 followers.
7. On October 26, 2021, he was arrested in Ohio and charged in federal court in in New York, USA with one count each of wire fraud and market manipulation and two counts of securities fraud. A judge set his bond at $1 million. He was released after posting $50,000.
8. On February 25, 2022, he appeared before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni and pleaded guilty to securities fraud.
9. On June 27, 2022, he was sentenced to time served and three years of supervised release with six months of the sentence to be served under home confinement.
10. He was 51 years old when Caproni fined him $10,000 on June 27, 2022 and ordered him to forfeit $21,716.