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by Mike Caswell

The Ontario Securities Commission has filed an insider trading case against a Mississauga couple, claiming that they traded ahead of the $2-billion (U.S.) takeover of Score Media & Gaming Inc. before news of the deal became public. The OSC says that the husband, who was the vice-president of finance at Score, learned about the deal through his job. He then arranged to buy options through an account that was in the name of his wife's friend, the OSC says.

The allegations are contained in an application for enforcement proceedings that the OSC filed on Sept. 23, 2025. The application identifies the couple as Huy Le Huynh, a chartered professional accountant who worked at Score, and Thi Anh Nguyet Pham, also a CPA, who worked at Bell Canada until she took parental leave in February, 2021. They have been married since 2017.

The case centres around Penn National Gaming's takeover of Score Media in 2021. The OSC claims that Mr. Huynh learned about the transaction on July 3, 2021, about a month before it became public. He then enlisted his wife's friend "in a scheme to profit from his early knowledge of the transaction by using [the friend] as an intermediary to purchase and sell Score securities through her TFSA," the OSC claims.

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