New Age Beverages dumps board member who settled with SEC

New Age Beverages Corp. disclosed Friday afternoon that a board member resigned after the company learned that he had previously settled a disciplinary action with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The beverage company, which plans to launch drinks with a cannabis-derived compound commonly known as CBD, said in a filing with the SEC that it "was apprised of previously undisclosed information relating to Robert J. Evans and Pennington Capital Management LLC stemming from a November 2014 Securities and Exchange Commission Order" on Thursday. That order required board member Evans and Pennington Capital Management to pay $165,000 to settle charges of illegally buying shares in a secondary offering that they had previously shorted in a restricted period, without admitting nor denying guilt. Companies that sell or plan to sell CBD beverages, such as New Age Beverages and India Globalization Capital Inc., or IGC, have been caught up in a volatile market for cannabis-related stocks around Canada's legalization of recreational marijuana sales this week. New Age Beverages shares have jumped 193% in the past three months, as the S&P 500 index has declined 1.3%.

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