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12/28/2007
CFTC Forex Boiler Room Fraud Action Nets $3.4 Million in Sanctions Against “Richmond Global” and Vincent Danio; Defrauded Customers Lost More Than $1.7 Million Trading Forex
, 5429-07
12/26/2007
MF Global Inc. and Thomas Gilmartin to Pay More Than $77 Million to Settle Actions by CFTC and Receiver ad litem
, 5427-07
12/19/2007
CFTC Sues Futures Commission Merchant Forex Liquidity LLC Alleging Undercapitalization in Excess of $11.6 Million
, 5426-07
12/18/2007
Nebraska Federal Court Orders Lawrence J. Volf, Commercial Hedge Services, Inc., Prime Trading Company, Inc., Sherman County Management, Inc., Sherman County Bank, and PT Holdings, Inc. to Pay $325,000 in Restitution to Farmers
, 5423-07
12/18/2007
CFTC Sues One World Capital Group, LLC and its President John Edward Walsh for Inability to Demonstrate it had Required Capital
, 5424-07
12/12/2007
Tennessee Court Finds Fraud and Imposes More Than $9.9 Million in Sanctions against Tennessee Forex Firm FxTrade Financial and its Principals and Salespersons in CFTC Action
, 5421-07
12/06/2007
Michigan Federal Court Orders Florida Corporations Millenium Trading Group LLC and Worldwide Clearing LLC, and Florida Resident Cedric Stanton, to Pay More Than $10 Million in Sanctions
, 5420-07
12/06/2007
CFTC Revokes the Introducing Broker Registrations of Next Financial Services Unlimited, Inc. and New World Trading, LLC
, 5418-07
11/29/2007
California Federal Court Orders Resident Brett E. Lovett to Pay More Than $635,000 in Sanctions in Fraud Action Brought by the CFTC
, 5416-07
11/15/2007
CFTC Charges Elizabeth Baldwin, Of Newport, Rhode Island, With Fraudulently Soliciting & Obtaining More Than $500,000 To Trade Commodity Futures
, 5414-07
11/14/2007
CFTC Obtains Permanent Injunction in Fraud Action Against New York Hedge Fund Operator Cornerstone Capital Management, LLC and its Principal, Atlanta Resident Joseph T. Profit II
, 5412-07
11/09/2007
Five Current and Former Coral Energy Traders Settle CFTC Charges for False Reporting and Attempted Manipulation in Natural Gas Market; Defendants Ordered to Pay $1 Million Penalty
, 5411-07
11/08/2007
CFTC Settles Natural Gas False Reporting and Attempted Manipulation Lawsuit with Energy Trader; Defendant Paul Atha, a Former Trader at Mirant Americas Energy Marketing, L.P. (Mirant), Ordered to Pay a $200,000 Penalty
, 5409-07
11/07/2007
Florida Federal Court Imposes Sanctions of More Than $20 Million Against a South Florida Firm Cromwell Financial Services, Inc., and Five Area Residents in a Commodity Options Fraud and Failure to Supervise Case
, 5408-07
10/31/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Action Against Atlanta Company Saxon Financial Services, Inc.
, 5407-07
10/25/2007
Former BP Trader Paul Kelly Agrees to Pay $400,000 Civil Penalty to Settle U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges of Attempted Manipulation of the NYMEX Unleaded Gasoline Futures Contract
, 5402-07
10/25/2007
BP Agrees to Pay a Total of $303 Million in Sanctions to Settle Charges of Manipulation and Attempted Manipulation in the Propane Market
, 5405-07
10/17/2007
South Florida Court Orders Jeffrey Paul Jedlicki, Jeffrey Jedlicki, Inc., Roxana Sofia Lao Mendez, and Beatriz Peralta Quesada to Pay More Than $1.39 Million in Restitution, Disgorgement, and Civil Monetary Penalties for Foreign Currency Options Scam
, 5401-07
10/11/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Settles Foreign Currency (Forex) Fraud Action against Defendant Hao Jan Lu; Total Orders by the Court Exceed $13 Million
, 5398-07
10/04/2007
New York Federal Court Orders Brokerage Firm, Clearing Firm, and Principals in CFTC Anti-Fraud Action to Pay More Than $2 Million in Restitution and Civil Penalties
, 5397-07
10/02/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Continues its Aggressive Enforcement Program and Achieved Record Judgments during Fiscal Year 2007
, 5396-07
10/01/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Sanctions Russell Investments Ireland Limited and Russell Investments Cayman Ltd. for Failure to File Annual Reports on Time for the Commodity Pools they Operate
, 5395-07
09/28/2007
French Company Banque CIAL Agrees to Pay Civil Penalty to Settle U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges that it Engaged in Wash Sales in the Treasury Futures Markets
, 5393-07
09/27/2007
Florida Federal Court Sanctions CEO and Former Employees of Miami Commodity Firm for Defrauding Investors Through False Solicitations of Energy Futures and Options
, 5392-07
09/26/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Action Against Gregg R. Amerman of Alpharetta, Georgia, and Three Companies that He Controlled; Complaint Alleges Misappropriation of More Than $675,000 in Customer Funds
, 5391-07
09/26/2007
California Federal District Court Imposes Restitution of $13.8 Million and Penalties of $1.5 Million Against Robert Joseph Beasley and Longboat Global Funds Management, LLC in Hedge Fund Fraud Action Brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
, 5389-07
09/25/2007
Florida Federal Court Issues Order Freezing Assets of Miami Beach Resident Joerg Heierle and Swiss Corporation INH-Interholding SA
, 5387-07
09/20/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges Slovak Republic Citizen, Maros Miklas, with Electronic Trading Fraud
, 5386-07
09/20/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Action in Florida Federal Court Against Tampa Resident Edward J. Evors Alleging Misappropriation of Customer Funds
, 5385-07
09/18/2007
Minnesota Federal Court Orders the Release of Frozen Assets for the Payment of Restitution to Defrauded Customers in Action Brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
, 5384-07
09/13/2007
Illinois Federal Court Freezes Assets of Lake Shore Asset Management Limited; Court Finds that the Lake Shore Common Enterprise Committed Fraud
, 5383-07
09/05/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Action Against Futures Commission Merchant Nations Investments, LLC, for Failure to Maintain the Minimum Amount of Net Capital Required by Federal Law
, 5380-07
09/05/2007
Florida Federal Court Sanctions Several South Florida Foreign Currency Options Boiler-Rooms, Brokerage Firms, and Ten Florida Individuals for Defrauding Customers
, 5379-07
08/30/2007
District of Columbia Federal Court Orders McGraw-Hill to Comply with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Subpoena and to Produce Documents of Commodity Index Provider Platts in Energy Investigation
, 5376-07
08/09/2007
New York Federal Court Enters Orders Granting Judgments in Four Cases against Nine Entities for International Commodity Futures and Options Scam; Defendants Ordered to Pay More than $15.5 Million in Restitution and Civil Penalties
, 5372-07
08/02/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges Washington State Man and His Companies with Defrauding Customers in Retail Foreign Currency Options Scheme
, 5367-07
08/01/2007
Marathon Petroleum Company LLC Agrees to Pay $1,000,000 Civil Penalty to Settle U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges of Attempted Manipulation in Crude Oil Markets
, 5366-07
07/31/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Seeks to Revoke the Registration of New York Foreign Currency Trader Udo Rotmistrenko
, 5365-07
07/31/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Sanctions Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, LLC and Merrill Lynch Alternative Investments, LLC for Repeated Failure to File Annual Reports on Time for Many of the Commodity Pools they Operate
, 5364-07
07/30/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Seeks to Revoke the Registration of Fort Lauderdale-based Commodity Investment Group, Inc.
, 5363-07
07/27/2007
U.S. District Court Appoints Fund Administrator to Disburse Restitution in the CFTC’s Forex Anti-Fraud Action Against Emerald Worldwide Holdings, Inc.
, 5362-07
07/26/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Alleges that Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. and Three of Its Subsidiaries Used the IntercontinentalExchange in Attempted Manipulation of Natural Gas Market
, 5360-07
07/25/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges Hedge Fund Amaranth and its Former Head Energy Trader, Brian Hunter, with Attempted Manipulation of the Price of Natural Gas Futures
, 5359-07
07/24/2007
CFTC Seeks to Revoke the Registration of Next Financial Services Unlimited, Inc. and New World Trading, LLC.
, 5358-07
07/23/2007
New Jersey Court Order Imposes More Than $30 Million in Sanctions against Coyt E. Murray, Tech Traders, Inc., Tech Traders, Ltd., Magnum Investments, Ltd., and Magnum Capital Investments, Ltd. in Anti-Fraud Action Brought by the CFTC
, 5357-07
07/19/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Congratulates the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force on its Fifth Anniversary
, 5355-07
07/18/2007
Interactive Brokers LLC Sanctioned for Failing to Supervise Its Compliance Staff
, 5354-07
07/17/2007
Federal Court Extends CFTC Asset Freeze over Hedge Fund Lake Shore Asset Management Limited
, 5353-07
07/11/2007
U.S. District Court Orders Telephone Clerk of a NYMEX Floor Brokerage Operation to Pay More Than $3.6 Million for Defrauding his Employer
, 5352-07
07/05/2007
CFTC Files Contempt of Court Motion Against Hedge Fund Lake Shore Asset Management Limited
, 5351-07
06/28/2007
Lake Shore Asset Management Limited, a Registered Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor, Charged with Refusing to Make Its Books and Records Available to CFTC for Inspection
, 5349-07
06/26/2007
CFTC Settles Natural Gas False Reporting and Attempted Manipulation Lawsuit with Former CMS Field Services Natural Gas Trader Jeffrey Bradley and Supply Director Robert Martin
, 5346-07
06/05/2007
South Carolina Federal District Court Issues Consent Order of Preliminary Injunction against Albert E. Parish, Jr. and His Company Parish Economics, LLC
, 5344-07
06/04/2007
Dallas Court Order Imposes More than $4.9 Million in Monetary and Other Sanctions against Carl W. King and Carl W. King Investments, LLP in Anti-Fraud Action Brought by the CFTC
, 5343-07
05/30/2007
Florida Federal Court Imposes More than $6 Million in Sanctions against a South Florida Corporation and Ft. Lauderdale Area-Resident Steven Labell in a Foreign Currency Fraud Case
, 5341-07
05/25/2007
Nine Florida Defendants Charged with Selling Illegal Foreign Currency (Forex) Options and Defrauding Customers of More than $7 Million
, 5340-07
05/22/2007
Nevada Federal Court Orders Sham Psychologist/Commodity Futures Trading Guru to Pay Penalty for Internet Misrepresentations
, 5338-07
05/21/2007
New York Court Enters Order Granting Judgment against American Energy Exchange and York Commodities for International Commodity Option Scam
, 5337-07
05/17/2007
New York Court Enters Order Imposing More than $2,000,000 in Monetary and Other Sanctions against Joseph Pappalardo, Ronald Turner, and Miron Vinokur in a Foreign Currency Scam
, 5336-07
05/07/2007
Florida Federal Court Imposes More than $16 Million in Sanctions against Two South Florida Corporations and Pompano Beach Resident Ted Romeo in Commodity Options Fraud Case
, 5333-07
05/04/2007
Defendants in Fraud Action Brought by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Ordered to Pay More than $14 Million in Civil Penalties and Disgorgement
, 5331-07
05/03/2007
California Federal Court Enters Order Granting Judgment against White Pine Trust Corporation and California Resident Stephan Baere in Foreign Currency Fraud Action
, 5330-07
05/02/2007
Illinois Federal District Court Imposes a Permanent Trading Ban and a $100,000 Civil Monetary Penalty against Florida Resident Bernadette Flavell for Violating a CFTC Order
, 5329-07
05/01/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges Illinois Resident Anthony A. Demasi and His Company, Tsunami Capital, LLC, with Fraud
, 5328-07
04/30/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Action in Federal Court to Compel Commodity Index Provider Platts to Produce Relevant Documents in Government Energy Investigation
, 5327-07
04/26/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Sanctions Flushing, New York Trader for Illegal Electronic Trading
, 5323-07
04/25/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Action against Five Foreign Entities and Individuals for Engaging in Illegal Transactions to Pass Money among Trading Accounts
, 5322-07
04/19/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges South Carolinian Albert E. Parish, Jr. and His Company, Parish Economics, LLC in Multi-Million Dollar Commodity Pool Fraud
, 5320-07
04/19/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Fraud Action against Florida Foreign Currency Firm, Its Owner, and Futures Commission Merchant
, 5319-07
04/12/2007
New York Federal Court Judgment Concludes Multi-Million Dollar Foreign Currency (Forex) Fraud Action Brought by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
, 5316-07
04/12/2007
Nine Defendants from “Operation Wooden Nickel” Ordered to Pay Restitution, Return Ill-Gotten Gains, and Pay Fines Totaling More Than $14,000,000
, 5315-07
04/05/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Revokes the Registration of Florida Corporation Worldwide Commodity Corporation and its Successor, South Coast Commodities, Inc.
, 5314-07
04/02/2007
Government Obtains Judgment against Two New York Investment Firms
, 5313-07
04/02/2007
Government Charges Texas Man and his Investment Company with Defrauding Customers in Connection with Internet Solicitations
, 5312-07
03/29/2007
Notice To Customers Of Forefront Investments Corp. D/B/A/ CFG Trader
, 5311-07
03/27/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Action Against Futures Commission Merchant Forefront Investments Corporation d/b/a CFG Trader For Failure to Maintain the Minimum Amount of Net Capital Required by Federal Law
, 5310-07
03/22/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Four Cases and Charges Nine Entities for Fraudulently Soliciting Investors Worldwide
, 5309-07
03/22/2007
New York Federal Court Orders Brokerage Firm, Clearing Firms, and Principals in CFTC Anti-Fraud Action to Pay More Than $21,000,000 in Restitution and Civil Penalties
, 5308-07
03/22/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Settles Natural Gas False Reporting and Attempted Manipulation Lawsuit with Former Western Gas Resources Energy Trader Andrew Richmond
, 5307-07
03/21/2007
Virginia Man & His California Corporation Ordered to Pay Nearly $12 Million in Penalties for Fraudulent Commodity Trading System Sold to More than 15,000 Customers
, 5305-07
03/15/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Settles Fraud Action Against Maryland Resident Arthur John Keeffe, II and His Foreign Currency (Forex) Trading Company, Calvary Currencies LLC
, 5303-07
03/14/2007
Connecticut Resident Burton Friedlander and his Company Ordered to Pay More Than $2 Million to Defrauded Customers in Connection with Commodity Fraud Scheme
, 5301-07
03/14/2007
Defendants Ordered to Pay $1.6 Million in Government's Attempted Manipulation Case against Concord Energy, LLC and Natural Gas Energy Traders Shawn McLaughlin and Darrell Danyluk
, 5300-07
03/07/2007
CFTC Settles Recordkeeping Charges Against Pioneer Futures, Inc.
, 5298-07
03/01/2007
CFTC's Division of Enforcement Clarifies Cooperation Advisory with Respect to the Attorney-Client and Work Product Privileges
, 5296-07
02/20/2007
Man Financial Inc. Sanctioned for Failing to Supervise Former Employee Who Fraudulently Solicited Customers
, 5294-07
02/16/2007
Federal Court Imposes Penalty and Restitution of More Than $1.3 Million against Manager at Worldwide Commodity Corporation in Commodity Options Fraud Case
, 5293-07
02/15/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Settles Action Charging NRG Energy Inc. with Falsely Reporting Natural Gas Trades
, 5292-07
02/13/2007
California Court Orders Gilbert Philip Castillo, Jr. and Castle Enterprise Corporation to Pay More than $800,000 in Disgorgement and $480,000 in Civil Penalties for Fraud by an Unregistered Commodity Trading Advisor
, 5291-07
02/07/2007
Texas Federal Court Orders Payment of More Than $123 Million in Fines and Restitution in Case Filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission against Seattle Firm and its Affiliates Involved in Forex Swindle
, 5289-07
02/06/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files Anti-Fraud Action Against New York Hedge Fund Cornerstone Capital Management, LLC and its Operator, Atlanta Resident Joseph T. Profit II
, 5288-07
02/01/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Revokes the Registration of United Investors Group Inc.
, 5284-07
02/01/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Revokes the Registration of Risk Capital Trading Group, Inc.
, 5283-07
01/24/2007
Georgia Hedge Fund, Renaissance Asset Management, LLC, and its Atlanta-based Chief Operating Officer Charged in Federal Court with Commodity Pool Fraud
, 5281-07
01/18/2007
Florida Federal Court Judgment Concludes Multi-Million Dollar Foreign Currency (Forex) Anti-Fraud Action Brought by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
, 5279-07
01/18/2007
Foreign Currency Company, UForex Consulting, its President, and Former Employee Charged in Louisiana Federal Court with Cheating Customers of More Than $2.9 Million
, 5278-07
01/16/2007
California Commodity Trading Firm, Acceleration Capital, Settles Charges of Fraud and Misappropriation Based on Former Agent’s Activity
, 5277-07
01/12/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files and Settles Charges Against Rosenthal Collins Group
, 5275-07
01/11/2007
U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon Enters Final Order against Mastermind of Multimillion Dollar Fraudulent Foreign Currency (Forex) Scam
, 5274-07
01/09/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Obtains Permanent Injunction against Seattle, Washington Man Charged with Solicitation Fraud for the Second Time
, 5273-07
01/09/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Files and Settles Charges Against Illinois Resident for Indirectly Trading Against His Customer Orders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
, 5272-07
01/04/2007
New York Firm Sanctioned for Defrauding Investors in Excess of $4.4 Million Dollars in a Foreign Currency (Forex) Scam
, 5271-07
01/04/2007
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charges Stephanie Ann Gallitano and Her Companies, Financial Risk International, Inc. and Financial Risk Management, Inc., with Defrauding Customers Purchasing Foreign Currency (Forex) Options
, 5270-07
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