07/30/2002
CFTC CHARGES MICHIGAN RESIDENT WITH INTERNET FRAUD AS PART OF FEDERAL "NETFORCE" INITIATIVE; Complaint Alleges Fraudulent Promotion of Internet Trading System
07/29/2002
CFTC FINES FORMER TRADING ADVISOR FOR HIS ROLE IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FRAUDULENT ALLOCATION SCHEME; Michael Skrable Agrees to Be Prohibited From Trading and From Registration
07/29/2002
CFTC Issues Order Suspending and Restricting Floor Broker's Registration Based on Exchange Disciplinary Proceedings
07/25/2002
FLORIDA FEDERAL COURT ENJOINS RECIDIVIST IN ACTION ALLEGING HE MISAPPROPRIATED AT LEAST $1 MILLION IN CUSTOMER FUNDS AND VIOLATED A PRIOR FEDERAL COURT ORDER; Consent Order issued by United States District Court in Florida Enjoins Defendants Thomas D. Chilcott and Leona Westbrook from, among other things, Committing Fraud and also Permanently Bars Defendants from Commodity Trading
07/24/2002
GRENADIAN COMPANY, A CANADIAN CITIZEN, AND TWO MINNESOTA RESIDENTS CHARGED WITH COMMODITY POOL FRAUD; CFTC Alleges that Sovereign Resource Management, Inc., Ken Mitra, Virgil E. Smith, and Anthony J. Heppner Fraudulently Solicited Individuals to Trade Foreign Currency Futures Contracts and Misappropriated Over $600,000 of Investors' Funds
07/23/2002
CFTC SUSPENDS TWO FLOOR BROKERS FOR UNLAWFULLY TRADING COFFEE FUTURES CONTRACTS; In Settlement, Joseph Defrancesco Found to Have Engaged in Fraud, Bucketing of Customer Orders, and Reporting Non-Bona Fide Prices, and Marc Greenstein Found to Have Engaged in Noncompetitive Trading, Wash Sales, and Accommodation Trades
07/22/2002
NEW YORK FOREIGN CURRENCY FIRMS CHARGED WITH FRAUDULENTLY SOLICITING OVER $15 MILLION FROM AS MANY AS 400 CUSTOMERS NATIONWIDE TO INVEST IN ILLEGAL FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) FUTURES CONTRACTS; CFTC Obtains Federal Court Order Freezing Assets of Defendants International Financial Services (New York), Inc., International Financial Services (New York), LLC, John Walker Robinson, and Chan Kow Lai
07/17/2002
FLORIDA DEFENDANTS SETTLE CFTC COMPLAINT ALLEGING FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) OPTIONS FRAUD; International Currency Strategies, Inc., Strategic Trading Group, Inc., Fairfield Currency Group, Inc., and Their Officers - Daniel Phillips and Valentin Fernandez - Are Permanently Barred From Trading Commodity Futures and Options
07/15/2002
COFFEE COMMODITY TRADERS BRUCE MILLER AND DEIRDRE ANDERSON CHARGED WITH FRAUDULENT TRADE ALLOCATION SCHEME; George Lamborn and Richard Lani Sr. Alleged To Have Failed to Diligently Supervise Miller and Anderson’s Trading; CSCE Floor Brokers, Daniel Lipton and Kenneth Lawson, Charged With Failing to Obtain Required Customer Account Identification
07/11/2002
FLORIDA WOMAN AND COMPANY SETTLE CFTC CHARGES ALLEGING THEY FRAUDULENTLY MARKETED COMMODITY TRADING SYSTEMS; CFTC Imposed Trading Bans and Penalties on Bernadette Flavell and Systems of Success – Window to Profit (SOS)
