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Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · TX · Jul 17, 2020 → Apr 3, 2024
Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:47 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET
Sam Frankfort is listed as a director on 2 SEC Form D filings by 1 issuer between Jul 2020 and Apr 2024: MALK Organics LLC (Austin, TX — industry reported as "Other" — 2020–2024; $7.9M reported sold to 18 investors).
What this means One deal on file with the SEC. A Form D is the notice a company files after it starts selling a private investment — it is a notice, not an approval.
Listed alongside Ben Fenton (2 shared filings), Ryon Paton (2 shared filings), Stuart Daley (2 shared filings), Adria Campbell (1 shared filing), August Vega (1 shared filing) and 8 others.
What this means These are the other officers, directors or promoters the companies named on the same forms — the team around Sam. Each name links to their own page.
Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), SEC enforcement releases, state securities regulators (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FINRA, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NASAA, NC, ND, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY) — 22 court cases matching the name, 1 SEC release, 5 state regulator orders, 32 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below.
What this means 60 records came back, including 2 court cases still open — open cases can take years and cost money. Each one is listed below with a link to the original document and a line saying why it matched. A name match is not proof it is the same person or company — read the why line and the document. Being sued or named in a release is an accusation, not a finding.
We compared 2 public filings for Sam Frankfort and found 7 differences, 3 worth asking the sponsor about: Regulator action: Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort, Kentucky (Aug 24, 2016); outside the US (as filed: FINRA) securities regulator individuals suspended for failure to comply with an arbitration award or related settlement or an order of restitution or settlement providing for restitution pursuant to finra rule series 9554 naming Sam Frankfort (Jul 8, 2025); and more below.
What this means These are differences between the sponsor's own SEC filings — both values, dates and sources are listed in Key records, section 4. Most have ordinary explanations; ask the sponsor.
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22 cases: 2 open, 11 closed (disposition not in docket feed), 4 judgment, 5 dismissed
190 Contract: Other· Cause:
28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract
480 Other Statutes: Consumer Credit· Cause:
15:1692 Fair Debt Collection Act
Other Fraud· Cause:
28:2201 Declaratory Judgment
220 Foreclosure
490 Cable/Satellite TV
791 Employee Retirement Income Security Act
190 Other contract actions
890 Other statutory actions
423 Bankruptcy Withdrawl· Cause:
28:0157 Motion for Withdrawal of Reference
423 Bankruptcy withdrawal 28 USC 157
850 Securities/Commodities· Cause:
28:1452 R&R re motions to remand (non-core)
423 Bankruptcy Withdrawl· Cause:
28:0158 Notice of Appeal re Bankruptcy Matter (BA)
890 Other statutory actions
890 Other statutory actions
850 Securities, Commodities, Exchange
791 Employee Retirement Income Security Act
863 D.I.W.C. / D.I.W.W.
190 Other contract actions
220 Foreclosure
Sources searched: CourtListener bulk data (RECAP dockets as of 2026-09-30; recall-first rule 10-24) — federal district + bankruptcy courts State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched. · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:47 AM ET.
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1 SEC release; 5 state regulator orders
Dana Niles Frankfort (CRD #2243930, Registered Representative, Marina Del Rey, California) was named as a respondent in an NASD complaint alleging that he instructed an individual to authorize and pay the full amount of a limited partner’s initial investment in a limited partnership without regard to the net profit or loss or the relative value of the partner’s account, resulting in the account being reduced to a $0 balance and constituting a re-purchase by the limited partnership of the individual’s partnership interest in contravention of the representations in the private placement memorandum. The complaint also alleges that this payment caused the remaining limited partners to suffer losses in the value of their interests unrelated to market returns, and Frankfort failed to notify the other partners that the partnership had re-purchased the interest of the one individual and that the partnership had suffered significant market losses since its inception. In addition, the complaintOrder / docket ↗ Regulator's list ↗
Dana Niles Frankfort (CRD #2243930, Registered Representative, Marina del Rey, California) was barred from association with any NASD member in any capacity. The sanction was based on findings that, in connection with the purchase or sale of securities, Frankfort, directly or indirectly, by the use of means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce or the mails, employed artifices, devices or schemes to defraud, made untrue statements of material facts or omitted to state material facts necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, engaged in acts, practices or courses of business that operated or would operate as a fraud or deceit, and/or effected transactions in, or induced the purchase or sale of, securities by means of manipulative, deceptive, or other fraudulent devices or contrivances. This decision has been appealed to the NAC, and the sanction is not in effect pending consideration of the appeal.Order / docket ↗ Regulator's list ↗
Dana Niles Frankfort (CRD #2243930, Registered Representative, Marina Del Rey, California) was barred from association with any NASD (and now, FINRA) member in any capacity. The NAC imposed the sanction following appeal of an OHO decision. The sanction was based on findings that Frankfort engaged in fraudulent misconduct by failing to disclose to public customers that an investment fund, that had engaged in trading and investing in put options on securities or various indices, had realized substantial market losses.Order / docket ↗ Regulator's list ↗
SEC enforcement searched: SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings — respondent names in the sec.gov index titles (30,205 releases, 1995-09-19 to 2026-10-23); release text is read only to confirm a candidate. Names that appear only in the body of a release are not found. — Searched SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings (1995→ / 2007→) (30,205 records as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET) — nothing matched Sam Frankfort..
State securities regulators: Securities regulators searched (64,910 actions): FINRA (38,350 actions, 1995–2026), NASAA (31 actions, 2000–2026; listing starts 1997), AK Division of Banking and Securities (273 actions, 1971–2025), AL Securities Commission (880 actions, 2001–2026), AR Securities Department (1,305 actions, 1998–2026), AZ Corporation Commission Securities Division (411 actions, 2017–2026), CA DFPI (25 actions, 2007–2024; listing starts 2002 — 16 of 12,159 DFPI respondent pages read so far; sponsor-name matches are read first), CO Division of Securities (731 actions, 2001–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2026-05-02)), CT Department of Banking Securities Division (940 actions, 2006–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2026-04-22)), DC DISB Securities Bureau (25 actions, 2012–2026), DE DOJ Investor Protection Unit (257 actions, 1987–2026), FL Office of Financial Regulation (49 actions, 2018–2026), GA Secretary of State Securities Division (65 actions, 2015–2026; listing starts 2012), HI DCCA Securities Enforcement Branch (26 actions, 2012–2026), ID Department of Finance Securities Bureau (663 actions, 1994–2026), IL Secretary of State Securities Department (4,122 actions, 2003–2023), KS Insurance Department Securities Division (58 actions), KY Department of Financial Institutions (342 actions, 2005–2026), LA Office of Financial Institutions Securities Division (13 actions, 2010–2025; listing starts 2008), MA Secretary of the Commonwealth Securities Division (125 actions, 2012–2025; live site blocks automated access — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-02-04), MD Attorney General Securities Division (1,054 actions, 2004–2026), ME Office of Securities (539 actions, 2000–2026), MI LARA Corporations, Securities & Commercial Licensing Bureau (201 actions), MO Secretary of State Securities Division (919 actions, 1998–2026), MS Secretary of State Securities Division (209 actions, 1995–2026), MT Commissioner of Securities and Insurance (597 actions, 2000–2026), NC Secretary of State Securities Division (265 actions, 2004–2024), ND Securities Department (711 actions, 1990–2026; the regulator no longer publishes this list live — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-01-06), NH Bureau of Securities Regulation (402 actions, 2002–2026), NM Regulation and Licensing Department Securities Division (90 actions, 2010–2025), NV Secretary of State Securities Division (118 actions, 2018–2026), NY Attorney General Investor Protection Bureau (44 actions, 2012–2026), OH Division of Securities (327 actions, 1993–2006), OK Department of Securities (2,531 actions, 1998–2026), OR Division of Financial Regulation (589 actions, 1988–2026), PA Department of Banking and Securities (1,448 actions, 2008–2024; the regulator no longer publishes this list live — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2024-08-09), RI DBR Securities Division (98 actions, 2005–2025), SC Attorney General Securities Division (540 actions, 2006–2026), SD Division of Insurance – Securities Regulation (106 actions, 2017–2026), TN Department of Commerce and Insurance Securities Division (405 actions, 1992–2026), TX State Securities Board (936 actions, 1999–2026), UT Division of Securities (772 actions, 2000–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2010-05-27)), VT DFR Securities Division (137 actions, 2010–2026), WA DFI (2,039 actions, 2001–2026), WI DFI Division of Securities (1,072 actions, 1998–2026), WV Securities Commission (State Auditor) (64 actions), WY Secretary of State Compliance Division (6 actions, 2016–2024) — last crawled Oct 24, 2026, 8:48 AM ET. No machine-readable public listing today for IA, IN, MN, NE, NJ, VA (see docs/state-regulators.md).
32 cases: 32 closed (disposition not in docket feed)
Sources searched: Federal bankruptcy courts via CourtListener / RECAP archive (federal district courts, federal bankruptcy courts). State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched (RECAP only). · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:47 AM ET.
Court records show docket facts only; we never restate allegations as facts. Outcome wording comes from the docket feed; where it does not state a disposition we say so.
State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). No state offers a lawful automated statewide source PartnerFacts can use today. Texas (re:SearchTX) terms prohibit storing results in a database open to third parties; New York (WebCivil) and Massachusetts (MassCourts) require a browser check that blocks scripted queries; California has no statewide index (58 county portals; Rule of Court 2.503 grants name-based access case by case); Florida, Utah and Illinois offer paid or partial access whose terms for automated use are unverified. Washington (dw.courts.wa.gov; bulk index reports under a JISC data-dissemination agreement), Delaware (CourtConnect; Court of Chancery not included) and Arizona (apps.azcourts.gov/publicaccess, which has an official channel to request high-volume access) are the candidates; PartnerFacts will request written permission before any automated search. Federal courts are searched through CourtListener / RECAP.
Comparisons cover issuers and sponsor groups — see the issuer pages under Deals
7 differences found between the filings for Sam Frankfort — 3 worth asking about (compared 2 filings on Oct 24, 2026)
A ap release dated Aug 24, 2016 names Sam Frankfort. Our match estimate: 40%. The release is the source; we do not summarize its outcome here.
What this means A regulator filed or announced an action naming this person or company (or someone on the same filings). Read the release; ask the sponsor what it was and how it ended.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a Individuals Suspended for Failure to Comply with an Arbitration Award or Related Settlement or an Order of Restitution or Settlement Providing for Restitution Pursuant to FINRA Rule Series 9554 dated Jul 8, 2025. Respondents as listed: Samuel D. Frankfort (CRD #2773755). Matched to Sam Frankfort. Our match estimate: 50%.
What this means A state regulator issued an order (cease-and-desist, consent order, fine or bar). Read the order; ask the sponsor what it covered.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a Individuals Suspended for Failure to Comply with an Arbitration Award or Related Settlement or an Order of Restitution or Settlement Providing for Restitution Pursuant to FINRA Rule Series 9554 dated Jul 8, 2025. Respondents as listed: Samuel D. Frankfort (CRD #2773755). Matched to Sam Frankfort. Our match estimate: 50%.
What this means A state regulator issued an order (cease-and-desist, consent order, fine or bar). Read the order; ask the sponsor what it covered.
The filing says the first sale was Feb 29, 2024. The Form D was filed Apr 3, 2024 — 34 days later. The rule: a Form D is generally due within 15 days after the first sale, so this one is 19 days past that.
What this means A late notice is common and carries no penalty by itself. It is worth asking the sponsor why the paperwork lagged.
The latest filing for this offering is dated Jul 17, 2020 (first sale Jul 6, 2020). It reports $7,904,000 sold of $10,000,000 offered. No later amendment is in our index as of Oct 24, 2026.
What this means SEC rules expect a yearly amendment while an offering is still going. The raise may simply have ended — a Form D does not say when it closed. Ask the sponsor whether the offering closed, when, and at what amount.
This page covers filings where the address state is TX. A separate record, "Sam Frankfort" with address state NY or CA, is listed on 10 filings — most recently by Camp NYC, Inc. (Nov 7, 2024). Both records have filings in the same period (Jul 17, 2020 to Apr 3, 2024).
What this means Two records with one name were active at the same time. That can be one person listing different company addresses, or two different people. We keep them apart until a filing ties them together. Check both pages before you decide.
The people listed on the Jul 17, 2020 filing give Houston, TX; on the Apr 3, 2024 filing they give Austin, TX.
What this means Businesses move; this just shows the two places and dates. If you were told one city and the forms say another, ask which is current.
What is compared: every Form D and D/A we hold for this subject, side by side — filing dates vs. first-sale dates (the 15-day rule), amendment timing on open offerings (the yearly-amendment expectation), amounts sold, investor counts, offering amounts and minimums across amendments, industry and size bands, addresses, how each person's name and role is written, paid sellers' CRD numbers, and (for groups) where the member companies were formed and sit. Everything is as filed by the issuer; the SEC does not check it. Differences are common and usually have ordinary explanations — we show both values, the dates, and the source so you can ask. As of Oct 24, 2026.
None reported on 2 offerings — no sales commissions, finder's fees or proceeds to insiders
| Offering (latest filing) | Sales commissions | Finder's fees | To insiders | Paid to sell it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2024 D MALK Organics LLC File 021-509430 | $0 | $0 | $0 | None listed on this filing | EDGAR ↗ |
| Jul 17, 2020 D MALK Organics LLC File 021-371300 | $0 | $0 | $0 | None listed on this filing | EDGAR ↗ |
Counts come from Form D Items 12–15 on the filings in our index (latest filing per offering; one offering = one SEC file number; an amendment updates its offering rather than adding one). "To insiders" = gross proceeds used for payments to executive officers, directors or promoters. "—" = not reported on that filing. Amounts marked (est.) were reported as estimates. "Paid to sell it" = sales compensation recipients named on that filing (Item 12), each linked to FINRA BrokerCheck when a CRD number is reported.
Counted across every filing this person is listed on (latest filing per offering, per issuer).
Every issuer that named Sam Frankfort on a Form D, newest first. A Form D is the notice a company files after it starts selling a private investment.
Raised $7.9M from 18 investors (100% of the $7M target) as of the latest filing. Sam is listed as director on 2 filings for this deal.
Every row is a Form D or D/A on which the issuer listed this name as a related person. Amount sold and investors are the maximum reported on any filing for this issuer. "Similar" = offerings in the same industry claiming the same exemption, filed in the last 5 years: Other / 506(b) (18,678 filings); ranges are the middle half (25th–75th percentile). Computed by PartnerFacts from SEC EDGAR Form D data as of Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET. Rows without a range: fewer than 30 comparable filings, or not a Rule 506 offering. No ranking or score.
Separate person records under the same name, not combined with this page. Each line says whether it shares an issuer with this record.
Officers, directors, promoters and management entities named on the same filings, as of Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET.
Listed on the same filings as Sam Frankfort. Their page shows their other deals.
Listed on the same filings as Sam Frankfort. Their page shows their other deals.
Listed on the same filings as Sam Frankfort. Their page shows their other deals.
John Howard is on 8 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.
Individuals are not matched to business registrations — registries list companies, and a name alone is not enough to tie a person to one. Officers and managers appear by name inside each matched company's record on the issuer pages. Registries searched: AL (Alabama Secretary of State — Business Entity Records (arc-sos.state.al.us), searched by issuer name, data as of Oct 24, 2026); CO (Colorado Secretary of State — Business Entities in Colorado (data.colorado.gov), data as of Oct 23, 2026); CT (Connecticut Secretary of the State — Business Registry (data.ct.gov), data as of Oct 24, 2026); FL (Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations — quarterly corporate data file (Sunbiz), data as of Oct 7, 2026); NY (New York Department of State — Corporations and Other Entities (data.ny.gov: All Filings + Active Corporations), data as of Oct 20, 2026); OR (Oregon Secretary of State — Active Businesses, All (data.oregon.gov), data as of Oct 20, 2026); PA (Pennsylvania Department of State — Registered Businesses, Current (data.pa.gov), data as of Oct 6, 2026); TX (Texas Comptroller — Active Franchise Taxpayers incl. Secretary of State file data (data.texas.gov), data as of Oct 24, 2026). Registries of other states have not been searched: many publish no bulk file and require a CAPTCHA or bot challenge on their search page, which we do not bypass (Delaware, for example, offers no public bulk file).
None of the 1 issuer this person is listed on appears in Form ADV (searched 24,962 advisers as of Oct 2, 2026). A person is never an adviser firm; Form ADV is checked for the issuers and the management companies they are listed with.
Searched SEC Regulation A Data Sets (Forms 1-A, 1-K, 1-Z; 2015 Q2 → 2026 Q3); SEC Crowdfunding Offerings Data Sets (Form C family; 2016 Q2 → 2026 Q3); EDGAR form index for 2026 Q3 → 2026 Q4 (51,358 records as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:41 PM ET) — nothing matched this name.
Property records are matched to companies only, never to individuals, so none are matched to Sam Frankfort by design. Searched property records in Hillsborough County FL (Clerk recorded-document index Oct 14, 2026 to Oct 15, 2026 + FL DOR 2026 ownership roll), Miami-Dade County FL (FL DOR 2026 ownership roll), Harris County TX (HCAD 2026 ownership roll), Dallas County TX (DCAD 2026 ownership roll), New York City ACRIS documents and PLUTO ownership rows already retrieved for other issuers, Cook County IL sale and ownership rows already retrieved for other issuers (814,874 records as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:59 PM ET) for the 1 issuer this person is listed on — nothing matched.
Websites and social links of the issuers Sam Frankfort is listed on: none on file. No website or social profile named in MALK Organics LLC's SEC filings (Form C, Reg A, Form ADV; checked Oct 24, 2026). Web search for this name: #102,401 of 374,652 in line (1,386 issuers searched so far). One-tap searches: Look further ↓
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