5. Digital Brand Has Knowingly Failed To Cure Some Deficiencies.
Digital Brand also has a high degree of culpability for the quarterly report information missing from the Comprehensive Form 10-K which it has never corrected, now over two years after Corporation Finance noted the deficiency.The four uncured 2018-2019 Reports still state that Digital Brand’s DCPs are effective “notwithstanding mitigating factors outside the Company’s control,” two years after Corporation Finance notified Digital Brand that the qualifier was unacceptable and more than a year after Corporation Finance reminded Digital Brand that the reports were still not corrected.
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[sic] Digital Brand was delinquent in its filings for two years, violations that were serious, recurrent, and then filed deficient reports for another year and one month. Digital Brand never cured some deficiencies, and its attempts at curing others were marked by delays, recalcitrance in the face of repeated notices of deficiency, and a troubling tendency to elide the reporting requirements through the use of improper qualifiers that blunted the utility of critical disclosures about controls. Digital Brand’s violations were serious, recurrent, and committed with a high degree of culpability. A sanction other than revocation would reward Digital Brand for gaming the system, incentivize other registrants to do the same, and undermine the Exchange Act’s reporting requirements.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, the Commission should vacate the Initial Decision and enter an order revoking the registration of Digital Brand’s securities.