The last we heard from Sonja Anticevic, a 60-something retired Croatian underwear seamstress living on a monthly pension of 1,600 kuna ($263), she was on her doorstep in the city of Omis face-to-face with reporters from the Associated Press. The reporters were asking her why, according to the SEC, $130,000 worth of speculative, out-of-the-money Reebok call options were purchased in an account in her name. The SEC had just sued Anticevic a day or so earlier alleging that the Reebok options in question had been quickly sold off at a profit of over $2 million when it was announced that Reebok would be acquired by Adidas.

According to an AP article from August 8, 2005, Anticevic appeared at the doorstep of her apartment in Croatia wearing a plain, sleeveless black cotton dress and told reporters she had "never bought a stock and I have no idea how that works. Leave me alone, please. I'm in shock."

Anticevic's apparently sincere confusion about the whole thing fueled speculation in the Croatian and U.S. media that perhaps Anticevic's 25-year-old nephew, David Pajcin, who was a former analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York, might have played a role in the trading. Indeed, it turned out that Pajcin and another man named Gene Plotkin had orchestrated the trading and a whole lot more, ultimately making millions from their insider trading and earning a spot on the Securities Docket Mount Rushmore of Securities Fraud.

Today, over four years later, Anticevic's name came up again, as U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood ordered her to pay more than $5.7 million for her role in the insider trading ring. Judge Woods granted the SEC's motion for a default judgment ordering Anticevic to give up $2.63 million of ill-gotten profits and interest, and to pay a $3.08 million fine.

According to Scott Black, one of the SEC attorneys on the case, the judgment will allow the SEC to recover illegal profits in Anticevic's account. "The most significant point is that a large portion of the money has been frozen, so while it is often hard to collect against a foreign defendant, we expect to be able to," he said.

Judge Woods ruled that by allowing Pajcin to use two brokerage accounts in her name to execute improper trades, "Anticevic played an important role in the schemes by making it easier for Pajcin to hide his insider trading. Anticevic was not, however, one of the main perpetrators of the schemes, and she did not conduct any of the illegal trading or provide any of the insider tips.