It could also open up damages and a class action suit to be filed by individual investors who sold or traded shares during this period and incurred losses due to spoofing. Those might also add up substantially.
Fireman - spoofing damages - for Non-Insider trading that violates Section 10b5 of the 1934 Act only lost profit damages (difference between sale price and hypothetical non-manipulated correct price) and consequential damages (brokerage fees and similar) are recoverable. For illegal insider trading including tipped trading on insider (non-public) information, treble damages are recoverable by statute tho i do not believe those are properly referred to as punitive since they are statutory.