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COURT ENTERS DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST NEW YORK FOREIGN CURRENCY FIRM AND OTHERS, ORDERING DEFENDANTS TO PAY OVER $30 MILLION IN PENALTIES AND $10 MILLION IN RESTITUTION TO CUSTOMERS: Judgment Entered In International Scam Against Defendants Eduard Dmanskiy and Sun Platinum and Relief Defendants Ocaline Int'l Corp., Hessar Alliance Inc., Klondike Int'l Inc., Pyrmont Alliance Corp., and Total Trading Services Ltd. Stemming From CFTC Charges That They Fraudulently Misappropriated Customer Funds And Traded Illegal, Off-Exchange Futures Contracts , 4990-04 |
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CFTC CHARGES UTAH FIRM, THREE OF ITS OFFICERS, AND A UTAH ATTORNEY WITH FRAUD; Vision Capital Corporation, Officers John Garrett, Allen Andersen, Robert Heninger, and Utah Attorney John Thomas Charged With Commodity Pool Fraud , 4989-04 |
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CFTC FILES $2.4 MILLION ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST CHICAGO RESIDENT EDWARD VELAZQUEZ AND HIS HEDGE FUND , 4988-04 |
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CFTC Announces New Location for its Kansas City Regional Office , 4987-04 |
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS PORTLAND RESIDENTS TO PAY MORE THAN $1.3 MILLION TO SETTLE FOREIGN CURRENCY FUTURES AND OPTIONS FRAUD CHARGES; Court Orders Nancy Hoyt, April Duffy, and Samantha Vorachith to Repay a Total of $596,337 to Investors and to Pay Contingent Civil Penalties Totaling $720,000 , 4986-04 |
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CFTC REVOKES REGISTRATION OF ILLINOIS FLOOR BROKER STUART MICHAEL HELFFRICH; CFTC Action Based in Part on Fraud Findings by Chicago Board of Trade , 4985-04 |
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CFTC FILES $10 MILLION ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST WINNETKA, ILLINOIS HEDGE FUND TRADEWINDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, AND ITS PRINCIPAL, CHARLES HARRIS , 4984-04 |
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CFTC Staff Allows the Mercato Italiano Dei Derivati's Futures Contracts Based on the S&P/MIB Index to be Offered and Sold in the United States , 4983-04 |
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CFTC Statement Re: Closure of Natural Gas Price Investigation , 4982-04 |
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CFTC Announces Departure of Scott Parsons , 4981-04 |
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CFTC FINDS THAT NYMEX FLOOR BROKER, IZMIR MEHMEDOVIC OF GLENDALE, NEW YORK, DEFRAUDED CUSTOMER , 4980-04 |
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U.S. DISTRICT COURT GRANTS SUMMARY JUDGMENT TO CFTC IN FRAUD ACTION AGAINST FLORIDA RESIDENTS, Genady Spivack A.K.A. George Spivak, Ellison Kent Morris, AND World-Wide Currency Services, Corp.; defendants Ordered to Pay Over One Million Dollars in Restitution and Are Permanently Banned from Commodity Related Trading or Solicitation , 4979-04 |
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COURT FINDS THAT FLORIDA RESIDENT AND TWO COMPANIES DEFRAUDED CUSTOMERS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY OPTIONS SCAM: Michael Dippolito, MAD Financial, Inc., and CTU, Inc. Agree to Pay Civil Penalty for Defrauding Investors , 4978-04 |
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CFTC CHARGES TEXAS-BASED COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR NEXGEN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, INC., AND OWNER JOHN P. NOVAK WITH COMMODITIES FRAUD; Defendants Allegedly Solicited Customers to Purchase their Advisory Services Using False Claims; Nexgen and Novak also Failed to Register as Commodity Trading Advisors , 4977-04 |
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FEDERAL COURT ENJOINS VISALIA, CALIFORNIA COMMODITIES TRADER AND HIS COMPANY FROM VIOLATING THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT; Consent Order of Permanent Injunction Entered Against Donald Steven Smith and His Company, Fibit.com , 4976-04 |
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MESA, ARIZONA PONZI SCHEME OPERATOR, RONALD STEPHEN HOLT, HELD IN CIVIL CONTEMPT FOR REFUSING TO REVEAL LOCATION OF VICTIMS' FUNDS; Court Orders Holt Jailed After 'Show Cause' Hearing; Action Stems from CFTC Antifraud Charges Brought Against Holt in September 2003 , 4975-04 |
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Illinois District Court Judge Orders Chicago Broker Keith W. Krysinski to Pay More Than $400,000 in CFTC Anti-Fraud Case, While Banning the Defendant from the Futures Industry For at Least Five Years , 4974-04 |
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CALIFORNIA FIRM CHASE COMMODITIES CORP. & TWO INDIVIDUALS CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING CUSTOMERS; Firm and Traders Lee Lagorio and Excel Obando Allegedly Made False Claims that Customers Would Make Large Profits with Little Risk , 4973-04 |
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ENFORCEMENT ACTION FILED AGAINST FORMER CEO OF RITTMEISTER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.; Pending Federal Criminal Charges Against Udo Rotmistrenko Alleged As Grounds for Suspending CFTC Registrations , 4972-04 |
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CFTC CHARGES FLORIDA COMPANY WORLDWIDE COMMODITY CORPORATION AND FOUR INDIVIDUALS WITH DEFRAUDING CUSTOMERS; Firm And Certain Traders Allegedly Made False Claims That Accounts Would Make Large Profits With Little Risk Due To Seasonal Events , 4971-04 |
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CFTC Recognizes Coral Energy Resources, LP's Statement Clarifying Prior Public Statements , 4970-04 |
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ASIC Grants Licensing Relief to CFTC Regulated Financial Services Providers , 4969-04 |
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CFTC's Division Of Enforcement Issues Advisory Identifying Cooperation Factors That May Reduce A Litigant's Sanctions , 4968-04 |
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Former Trader Agrees to Cooperate with U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Settles Case for Illegal Wash Trades , 4967-04 |
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CLEVELAND COMMODITIES FIRM, ITS PRESIDENT AND TWO FORMER EMPLOYEES CHARGED WITH FRAUD; Carnegie Trading Group Ltd., Inc. Allegedly Used Fraudulent Statements to Solicit Customers to Trade Commodity Futures and Options , 4966-04 |
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CFTC APPLAUDS SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF FORMER ENRON TRADER BY CALIFORNIA FEDERAL PROSECUTORS; John M. Forney Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud , 4965-04 |
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CORAL ENERGY PAYS $30 MILLION TO SETTLE U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED MANIPULATION AND FALSE REPORTING , 4964-04 |
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President Designates Sharon Brown-Hruska Acting Chairman , 4963-04 |
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U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION CHARGES TRADING SYSTEM DEVELOPER AND PROMOTER AND THEIR PRINCIPALS WITH COMMODITY FRAUD; TradeWins Publishing Corporation and Its President, Stephen A. Schmidt, Allegedly Solicited Customers to Purchase a Trading System Using False Claims; System Developer and His Company Also Charged , 4962-04 |
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U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SETTLES CHARGES AGAINST FIVE INDIVIDUALS FOR TAKING PART IN ARTIFICIAL TRADING SCHEME; CFTC Order Finds That Illinois Residents Daniel J. Collins, Thomas M. Gianos, Bernard Miraglia and John R. Wade, and Wisconsin Resident Edward M. Collins Participated in Illegal Transfer Trades During the 1980s , 4961-04 |
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NATURAL GAS TRADER HUNTER SHIVELY AGREES TO COOPERATE WITH U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION IN SETTLING MANIPULATION CASE , 4960-04 |
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ENRON SETTLES CFTC COMPLAINT CHARGING IT WITH MANIPULATING NATURAL GAS PRICES IN JULY 2001; Federal District Court Enters Consent Order of Permanent Injunction Against Enron , 4959-04 |
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADER ORDERED TO PAY MORE THAN $1 MILLION TO DEFRAUDED CUSTOMERS; Federal Court Bans Utah Man, Stanley E. Varner from Trading Commodities for Five Years and Imposes $575,000 Civil Penalty , 4958-04 |
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CFTC FILES ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST FORMER CEO OF ANICOM, INC.; Pending Federal Criminal Charges Against Scott C. Anixter Alleged As Grounds for Suspending His CFTC Floor Trader Registration , 4957-04 |
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS FLORIDA RESIDENTS TO PAY MORE THAN $22 MILLION IN CFTC FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) FUTURES FRAUD ACTION; Court Orders Defendant Donald O'Neill and His Companies to Repay Over $12 Million to Investors and Pay Civil Monetary Penalties Totaling $10.6 Million , 4956-04 |
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CFTC SETTLES CHARGES AGAINST THREE FORMER AGENTS OF CONVICTED FELON JOHN WHEELER; Defendants Michael Fagan, Robert Mendoza, and Gary Wood Agree to Turn Over Money They Received from Wheeler as Commissions , 4955-04 |
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CFTC Extends Comment Period on the Governance of Self-Regulatory Organizations , 4954-04 |
