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Two Texas Men Sued for Defrauding Former Employer; CFTC Charges Clay Krhovjak and Paul Cochran in Fraudulent Allocation Scheme, 4577-01
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COLORADO MAN BANNED FOR UNAUTHORIZED COMMODITY TRADING; CFTC Imposes Trading Ban on Dale Luther Mock, 4574-01
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CFTC Charges Texas Commodity Broker with Fraud; CFTC Alleges that D. Michael Sheaves Fraudulently Omitted Significant Trading Losses, 4573-01
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GEORGIA INTERNET PROMOTERS CHARGED WITH COMMODITY FRAUD; CFTC Alleges that George Heffernan and Ellery Coleman Made False Claims Concerning Profits Generated by Commodity Trading Systems; Defendants Also Alleged to Have Violated CFTC Orders Issued Against Them in September and May 2000, 4568-01
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Canadian Resident and His Offshore Company Charged with Defrauding U.S. and Canadian Investors Through A Commodity Scam; CFTC Alleges That Defendants Andrew Duncan and Aurum Society, Inc. Operated "Ponzi" Scheme and Fraudulently Obtained Over $3 Million from Customers; Defendants also Alleged to have Misappropriated Funds, , 4565-01
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Iowa Commodities Speculator Settles Government Charges; CFTC Bans Frederick Mersch From Trading For Two Years For False Reporting and Exceeding Trading Limits on Frozen Pork Belly Futures, 4566-01,
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CFTC Charges Los Angeles Commodity Broker with Fraud; CFTC Alleges that Broker Alfred Gladstone Fraudulently Claimed That He Made Millions In Profits When In Fact, His Customers Had Net Losses Of Over $1 Million; Although 99% Of His Customers Lost Money, Broker Told Them That Their Investments Were "a Sure Bet", , 4564-01
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CFTC's Latest Action Part of Nationwide Crackdown on Foreign Currency (Forex) Scams; Complaint Charges Defendants with Defrauding U.S. and Canadian Citizens; Telemarketers Used High-Pressure Sales Tactics to Solicit Customers, 4563-01
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Georgia Defendants Settle Commodity Fraud Charges; CFTC Permanently Bans James E. Stephens, III, and Trendsystems, Inc. from Trading on Behalf of Others, 4562-01
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Avista Energy, Inc. Ordered to Pay $2.1 Million to Settle CFTC Charges of Manipulating Electricity Futures; Former Company Officers and Employees and NYMEX Floor Broker also Charged with Manipulation, 4555-01
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CFTC Files Enforcement Action Charging Two Chicago Firms and Resident with a Failure to Supervise Foreign Accounts; CFTC Files Complaint Against Excellent USA And John Gallwas and Accepts Settlement Offer From LFG, 4553-01
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CFTC Settles Fraud Action Against COMEX Floor Broker Vincent Coppola, 4552-01
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CFTC Files Enforcement Actions Against Los Angeles-Based Firms Selling Illegal Foreign Currency (FOREX) Investments to the Retail Public; Acro Information Service, Inc., Pakco Holdings Limited and Dr. Florentius Chan Charged with Committing Fraud; Acro's Customers were Members of Asian and Other Ethnic Communities; In the Second Action, Fintrex, Inc., Arman Ovsepyan, and Lytresse Fox Are Charged with Offering Illegal Off-Exchange Forex Futures Contracts, 4551-01
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CFTC Charges Maryland Man and His Company With Defrauding 600 Investors in a Commodity Pool; CFTC Alleges That Defendants Peter Scott and R&W Capital Management, Inc. Fraudulently Solicited Over $2 Million from Investors and Misappropriated Investor Funds For Personal Use, 4549-01
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CFTC Charges Chicago Area Residents with Fraudulent Promotion of Pork Belly Trading System; According to the Complaint, a Year's Worth of Service Cost $4,500 and Ads Touted that Customers Could Have Made as Much as 700%, Release 4545-01
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Colorado Man Sued for Failing to Tell Customers His Commodity Trading System was Based on Hypothetical Trades; Gramalegui Made False Claims that his Mother Profitably Traded with His System, Release 4544-01
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CFTC Files and Settles Enforcement Action Against a Chicago Floor Broker for Failing to Supervise a Trader He Sponsored; CFTC Finds that Michael Thomas Lee Violated an Order and Sponsor Agreement and Suspends His Registration; Order Underscores Need For Sponsors To Take Duties Seriously, Release 4543-01
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Former Member of New York Futures Exchange Charged with Price Manipulation and False Representations; CFTC Charges Norman Eisler and First West Trading with Manipulating Settlement Prices of Option Contract and Making False Representations, 4542-01
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Minnesota and Wisconsin Defendants Barred from U.S. Futures Markets by Federal Court for Commodity Scam; Two Individuals and Three Companies Must Pay Up to $561,452 in Restitution and Up to $671,452 in Civil Fines, 4539-01
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CFTC Settles Case Against Commodity Firm for Fraudulent Advertising; Federal Regulator Finds that CTS Financial Publishing and Others Used Over One Million Mailings and the Internet to Fraudulently Tout the Potential for Large Profits, 4538-01
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CFTC Settles Case Against Kentucky Man For Fraudulently Selling Commodity Trading System; Federal Regulator Finds that Donald M. Fishback, Jr. Represented to Investors that his Company's Trading System Could "Virtually Eliminate Losing Trades", , 4537-01
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CFTC Files and Settles Fraud Action Against Commodity Trader Who Claimed to Make "A Killing," , 4536-01
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CFTC Participates in Second Annual International "Internet Surf" Day to Uncover Fraudulent Promotion of Commodity Schemes, , 4535-01
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CFTC Files Action Against California Resident for Violating Exchange Trading Limits; CFTC Alleges that Andy Saberi Violated the Trading Limits For Pork Belly Futures Set by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 4533-01
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Maine Resident Charged with Defrauding Over 200 Investors; CFTC Alleges that Edward W. Knipping and Time Traders, Inc. Fraudulently Operated a $5.9 Million Commodity Pool and Misappropriated Investor Funds, 4529-01
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Ohio Commodity Companies Charged with Offering Phony Investments; CFTC Alleges that Two Ohio Firms-- International Monetary Group, Inc. and Currency Management Group, Inc.--and Three Ohio Residents - Anthony Dellarciprete, Emido Dellarciprete, and James Lemmon -- Fraudulently Solicited the Retail Public to Invest in Illegal Foreign Currency Options (FOREX) , 4528-01
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CFTC Charges Florida Commodity Firm with Fraud; CFTC Alleges That First Investors Group of the Palm Beaches Used Fraudulent Infomercial and Sales Pitches To Solicit Customers, 4527-01
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CFTC Charges LA Commodity Firm with Fraud; CFTC Alleges That Madison Financial Group Told Salesmen To "Make Up A Story" To Solicit Customers, , 4523-01
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Floor Broker - Michael H. Varner - Charged with Violating a 1999 CFTC Order, 4522-01
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WISCONSIN RESIDENT MICHAEL JAMES KONKEL BARRED FROM TRADING COMMODITY INVESTMENTS IN CFTC FRAUD CASE; Alabama Federal Court Requires Defendant Konkel to Make Restitution of $790,000 to Defrauded Investors and Pay a Civil Fine of Up to $440,000 and Bars Him From Registering with the CFTC, 4518-01
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CFTC FILES ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS AGAINST FIRMS FRAUDULENTLY SELLING ILLEGAL FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) OPTIONS; In Two Separate Actions, CFTC Charges (1) the ICS Common Enterprise (three Florida companies) and Three Individuals - Valentin Fernandez, Daniel Phillips, and Manny Kavekos of Florida; and (2) Infinite Trading Group, L.L.C., a Georgia Forex Firm, along with Shawn Christie, Edward Cameron Lindsey and Anthony Garcia of Georgia, 4513-01
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CFTC SETTLES FRAUD ACTION AGAINST COMEX FLOOR BROKER TIMOTHY MURPHY, 4512-01
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CFTC CHARGES SUNSTATE FX, INC. AND ULRICH GARBE OF BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, WITH FRAUD IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOLICITATION OF INVESTORS TO TRADE FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) CONTRACTS; Complaint Alleges that SunState and Garbe Fraudulently Operated a Commodity Pool and Illegally Offered Foreign Currency Options to the Retail Public; Court Enters <em>Ex Parte</em> Restraining Order Against the Defendants on the Same Day the Complaint is Filed , 4508-01
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CFTC CHARGES JEFFREY T. BAILEY OF AMELIA, OHIO, AND JMK CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. WITH COMMODITY POOL FRAUD, 4507-01
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UTAH FEDERAL COURT ENTERS CONSENT ORDER OF PERMANENT INJUNCTION AGAINST MARK AND STEVE SCHENK FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN A FRAUDULENT COMMODITY POOL SCHEME; The Consent Order Requires Mark and Steve Schenk to Pay Restitution and Disgorgement and Permanently Bars Them From Trading Commodity Futures and Options For Others and From Seeking Registration with the CFTC, 4506-01
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FLORIDA DISTRICT COURT ISSUES FINAL ORDER OF JUDGMENT AGAINST NATIONAL BULLION AND COIN, INC., CAPITAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT & FINANCE, INC., JOSEPH B. FLANIGAN, AND LAWRENCE COLMAN; Order Requires Defendants to Pay in Excess of $12 Million in Restitution and Civil Monetary Penalties in Case Involving the Fraudulent Marketing of Illegal Precious Metals Futures Contracts, 4504-01
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CFTC SETTLES ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST ISAAC FLEYSHMAKHER FOR COMMODITY POOL FRAUD; CFTC Order Finds that Fleyshmakher Made Fraudulent Solicitations and Engaged in Unauthorized Trading and Misappropriation of Funds in Connection with His Operation of New Frontier and New Millennium Commodity Pools; Order Requires Him to Pay Restitution to Defrauded Investors, Among Other Sanctions, 4503-01
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