03/08/2005
MARYLAND FEDERAL COURT ENTERS CONSENT ORDER AGAINST FORMER RESIDENT ANDREW M. SILBERSTEIN IN COMMODITY POOL FRAUD ACTION; In Action Brought by U.S.Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the State of Maryland, Silberstein Is Ordered to Pay Total Sanctions of $560,000
02/24/2005
Tennessee Foreign Currency Firm FxTrade Financial, LLC, and Jeffrey Mischler, its CEO and Managing Partner, Along with Seven Others, Agree to Order Finding that They Violated Court Orders Preventing Dissipation of Customer Funds
02/18/2005
U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION AND OTHER FEDERAL AUTHORITIES COOPERATE TO SHUT DOWN NEW YORK FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) BOILER ROOM OPERATION; CFTC CHARGES RICHMOND GLOBAL ENTITIES OF STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK AND FOUR INDIVIDUALS WITH DEFRAUDING 160 CUSTOMERS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FOREX SCHEME; CFTC Assisted U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
02/03/2005
U.S. District Court Orders Florida Company World-Wide Currency, Corp., and Florida Residents Genady Spivack a.k.a. George Spivak and Ellison Kent Morris to Pay Over $6 Million in Civil Fraud Action
02/02/2005
CFTC AWARDED FINAL JUDGMENT IN FRAUD ACTION AGAINST INTERTRADE FOREX, INC. AND UK RESIDENT PRITESH PATEL; Defendants Ordered to Pay More Than $650,000 in Civil Penalty and Customer Restitution
02/02/2005
Federal Court Orders New Jersey Resident James I. Weiss and Clearview Capital Management, Inc. to Pay Sanctions of $800,000 in Foreign Currency Fraud Case
02/01/2005
CFTC LAUNCHES MULTIPLE FEDERAL ACTIONS AGAINST A TOTAL OF 15 ENERGY TRADERS, CHARGING THEM WITH FALSE REPORTING AND ATTEMPTED MANIPULATION; CFTC Names Former Traders of Enserco Energy, Inc., Mirant Americas Energy Marketing, Cinergy Corp., Duke Energy Trading and Marketing, CMS Field Services Inc., and Coral Energy Resources, LLP
01/27/2005
CFTC SEEKS TO REVOKE REGISTRATIONS OF ILLINOIS RESIDENT LESLIE JEAN WNUKOWSKI;
01/26/2005
CFTC SETTLES LAWSUIT WITH AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY AND AEP ENERGY SERVICES, INC. FOR FALSE REPORTING AND ATTEMPTED MANIPULATION IN NATURAL GAS MARKETS; Federal Government Collects $81 Million: Defendants Ordered to Pay $30 Million Civil Monetary Penalty to CFTC; AEP Energy Services, Inc. to Pay an Additional $30 Million to U.S.Department of Justice to Avoid Federal Criminal Prosecution, and $21 Million to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
01/19/2005
CFTC FINDS THAT PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR ROYAL BERG, INC. AND ITS PRINCIPAL, GARY BERG, VIOLATED DISCLOSURE OBLIGATIONS