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	 <title>Federal Court in New York Orders Chicago Resident and Former Floor Broker, Kent R.E. Whitney, to Pay $600,000 for Margin Call Avoidance Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:53:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order of permanent injunction requiring defendant, Kent R.E. Whitney, a former floor broker of Chicago, Ill., to pay a $600,000 civil monetary penalty for making false and misleading statements to Chicago Mercantile Exchange representatives, futures commission merchants, and others in connection with an elaborate scheme to trade options without posting the required margin.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in South Carolina Orders Ronald E. Satterfield and Nicholas and Patricia Bos to Pay over $7.5 Million for Fraud in Connection with a Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:54:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained two federal court consent orders of permanent injunction, one order requiring defendant Ronald E. Satterfield, of Charleston, S.C., to pay $957,146 of restitution and a $2,871,438 civil monetary penalty, and the other order requiring defendant Nicholas Bos of Ludington, Mich., to pay $849,146 of restitution and a $2,547,438 civil monetary penalty, for operating a foreign currency Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders ACI Capital Group, L.L.C. and Alexandre P. Guimaraes to Pay Approximately $850,000 in Restitution and Penalty to Settle Forex Fraud Charges</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:54:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Alexandre P. Guimaraes and his company, ACI Capital Group, L.L.C., both of Irvine, Calif., for fraudulently soliciting customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency contracts, issuing hundreds of false monthly account statements to customers to conceal trading losses, and misappropriating a portion of customer funds.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Michael J. Leighton of Torrance, Calif., with $1.6 Million Commodity Pool Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:41:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, charging Michael J. Leighton of Torrance, Calif., with solicitation fraud and issuing false statements in connection with the operation of a commodity trading pool.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges New York Firm Madison Dean, Inc., and its Principals, George Athanasatos and Laurence Dodge, with Forex Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:21:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Madison Dean, Inc., of Wantagh, N.Y., and its principals, George Athanasatos, also of Wantagh, and Laurence Dodge of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., with fraudulently soliciting approximately 19 persons to invest approximately $415,000 in managed trading accounts to trade off-exchange foreign currency contracts on a leverage or margined basis.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Obtains Default Judgment against Former Florida Resident Juvenal E. Machado and His Company, Invers Forex, LLC, for Off-Exchange Forex Scam</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 20:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC  announced that Judge Marcia G. Cook, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, entered an order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Juvenal Eduardo Machado (aka Juvenal Eduardo Machado Bogadi, Edward Kaufman, and Eduardo Machado), whose last known address in the United States is Miami, Fla., and his company, Invers Forex, LLC.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in New York Orders Thomas Qualls and His Company, International Foreign Currency, to Pay More than $4.6 Million in Restitution and Penalties in Connection with Off-Exchange Forex Futures Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:48:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that a federal court in New York ordered more than $4.6 million in restitution and a civil monetary penalty in a 2003 CFTC enforcement action against defendants Thomas Qualls and his company, International Foreign Currency, Inc., which charged the defendants with misappropriation, fraudulent solicitation, and unlawfully offering off-exchange foreign currency  futures contracts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Utah Residents Christopher Hales, Eric Richardson and their Company, Bentley Equities, LLC, with Fraud and Misappropriation</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a federal court action in Utah charging Bentley Equities, LLC, a Delaware corporation, and its principals, Christopher D. Hales and Eric A. Richardson, with fraud and misappropriation in connection with commodity futures trading.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Illinois Resident Dimitry Vishnevetsky and His Company, Oxford Capital, LLC, with Commodity Pool Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:47:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that the Honorable Ruben Castillo, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, entered an order freezing the assets of defendants Dimitry Vishnevetsky of Chicago, Ill., and his company, Oxford Capital, LLC, a defunct Wisconsin limited liability company.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Illinois Orders Trading Point of Financial Instruments Ltd. to Pay $140,000 Penalty for Acting as Unregistered Retail Forex Dealer</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order requiring Trading Point of Financial Instruments Ltd., of Limassol, Cyprus, to pay a $140,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Sidney J. Charles, Jr. and his Maryland-based Company, The Borrowing Station, LLC, in Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:54:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a federal court action charging Sidney J. Charles, Jr., formerly of Bowie, Md., and his company, The Borrowing Station, LLC, of Bowie, Md., with fraud, misappropriation, and registration violations in connection with an off-exchange leveraged foreign currency Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Enters Order Settling CFTC $85 Million Forex Fraud Action against California Resident Peter Son and his Companies SNC Asset Management, Inc. and SNC Investments, Inc.</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court supplemental consent order requiring defendants Peter Son of Danville, Calif., and his companies, SNC Asset Management, Inc., and SNC Investments, Inc., to pay a $5 million civil monetary penalty.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders Texas-based PassThrough Investments, LLC, and its Principals, Stephen Brantley and Dwayne Bryant Dawson, to Pay over $1.1 Million in Sanctions to Settle CFTC Charges of Fraud in Operating a Forex Trading Pool</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC issued an order settling charges that PassThrough Investments, LLC aka PassThrough Investments Group, LLC), and its principals, Stephen Brantley and Dwayne Bryant Dawson, all of Spring, Texas, fraudulently solicited and accepted at least $2.6 million from at least 60 members of the public to participate in an off-exchange foreign currency (forex) pool that traded on a leveraged or margined basis.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Settles Action against Florida Resident Ghassan Tawachi for Fraud and Misappropriation</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:36:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges that Ghassan Tawachi of Coral Gables, Fla., defrauded customers through sales of his software trading systems by falsely claiming expertise as a successful professional trader and by misappropriating $40,000 from one customer.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Georgia Resident Robert A. Christy and His Company Crabapple Capital Group LLC with Foreign Currency Fraud and Misappropriation</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:21:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Judge Richard W. Story of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, entered an emergency order freezing the assets of defendants Robert A. Christy of Milton, Ga., and his company Crabapple Capital Group LLC of Alpharetta, Ga.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in California Orders Forex Liquidity LLC to Pay $400,000 for Failing to Maintain Required Net Capital and Books and Records</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:01:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a consent order of permanent injunction requiring defendant Forex Liquidity LLC of Santa Ana, Calif., to pay a $400,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that it was undercapitalized and failed to maintain required books and records.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders $14 Million in Fines and Disgorgement Stemming from CFTC Charges against Optiver and Others for Manipulation of NYMEX Crude Oil, Heating Oil, and Gasoline Futures Contracts and Making False Statements</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained $14 million in civil monetary penalties and disgorgement pursuant to a federal court consent order against defendants Optiver Holding BV, a global proprietary trading company headquartered in the Netherlands, and two subsidiaries – Optiver US, LLC, a Chicago-based corporation, and Optiver VOF, a Dutch company, as well as against then company officers who were responsible for the unlawful trading: Randal Meijer, Bastiaan van Kempen, and Christopher Dowson, the only individual defendant who remains employed by Optiver.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Colorado Defendants Flint-McClung Capital LLC and Shawon McClung to Pay over $6 Million in CFTC Action Charging Them with Running Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado entered an order against defendants Flint-McClung Capital LLC, of Englewood, Colo., and Shawon McClung, formerly of Denver, Colo., requiring them jointly and severally to pay restitution of $1,701,250 and a $4.3 million civil monetary penalty.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Virginia Federal Court Orders Ronald W. Smith, Jr., Doing Business as Safeguard 3030 Investment Club, to Pay More than $3 Million in Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:28:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced  that a federal court in Virginia entered a final default judgment and permanent injunction against Ronald W. Smith, Jr. of Vansant, Va., doing business as Safeguard 3030 Investment Club.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Revokes Registration of Robert Wayne Mansell</title>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:03:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a Notice of Intent to Revoke the Registration of Robert Wayne Mansell, a resident of Chicago, Ill., who has been registered as a floor broker with trading privileges at the Chicago Board of Trade since 1989, and simultaneously issued an Opinion and Order, settling the action and revoking Mansell’s registration.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC, a Registered Futures Commission Merchant, to Pay More than $2.5 Million for Supervision and Record-Production Violations</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:31:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC, a Chicago, Ill.-based registered futures commission merchant, for failing to diligently supervise the handling by its officers, employees, and agents of an account held at RCG in the name of Money Market Alternative, LP.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Brad Lee Demuzio of Idaho and his Company, Demuzio Capital Management, with Operating a Fraudulent $1.8 Million Commodity Pool and Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:46:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in federal court in Idaho charging defendant Brad Lee Demuzio of Chubbuck, Idaho and his company, Demuzio Capital Management, with operating a Ponzi scheme that solicited nearly $1.8 million.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Texas Orders Total Call Group, Inc. and its Principals to Pay over $4.8 Million in Fines for Making False Representations and Issuing False Account Statements in Forex Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:43:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that a federal court entered an order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Total Call Group, Inc. (aka TPFX, Inc., Power Play FX) of Frisco, Texas, and its principals, Craig B. Poe, also of Frisco, and Thomas Patrick Thurmond (aka Patrick Thurmond) of San Antonio, Texas.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to Pay a $20 Million Civil Monetary Penalty to Settle CFTC Charges of Unlawfully Handling Customer Segregated Funds</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:01:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for its unlawful handling of Lehman Brothers, Inc.’s customer segregated funds.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Royal Bank of Canada with Multi-Hundred Million Dollar Wash Sale Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:14:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in federal district court in New York charging the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian bank and financial services firm doing business in New York, with conducting a multi-hundred million dollar wash sale scheme in connection with exchange-traded stock futures contracts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Seeks to Revoke the Registrations of Illinois Resident Joseph A. Dawson and His Company, Strategic Research LLC</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:50:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a notice of intent to revoke the registrations of Illinois resident Joseph A. Dawson and his company, Strategic Research LLC , a registered Commodity Pool Operator.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Puerto Rico Orders Angel F. Collazo and ACJ Capital, Inc. to Pay over $3.7 Million for Solicitation Fraud and Issuing False Statements in an Off-Exchange Foreign Currency Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:53:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that it obtained a federal court consent order requiring defendants Angel F. Collazo, of Salinas, Puerto Rico, and his company, ACJ Capital, Inc., jointly and severally to pay $1,544,252 of restitution, to disgorge $550,590 of ill-gotten gains, and to pay a $1,666,770 civil monetary penalty for fraudulently soliciting customers to trade off-exchange leveraged foreign currency  contracts and issuing false statements to conceal trading losses.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Revokes Registrations of Richard Allan Finger, Jr. and his Company, Black Diamond Futures, LLC Based on Criminal Action</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:42:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a Notice of Intent to Revoke the Registrations of Richard Allan Finger, Jr., a resident of Washington State, and Black Diamond Futures, LLC, a Washington State limited liability company.  The CFTC simultaneously issued an Opinion and Order settling the action and revoking Black Diamond’s registration with the CFTC as a Commodity Trading Advisor and Finger’s registration as its sole Associated Person.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Florida Resident Abraham Gutterman and His Companies, Alliance Capital Metals LLC and AR Goldman Wealth Management, LLC with Commodity Gold and Oil Options Fraud and Misappropriation</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:43:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a federal court action against Abraham Gutterman, Alliance Capital Metals LLC, and AR Goldman Wealth Management, LLC (doing business as U.S. Principal Financial Services), all of South Florida, charging them with commodity options fraud and misappropriation.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Joseph F. Welsh III, Former MF Global Broker, with Attempted Manipulation of Palladium and Platinum Futures Prices</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:47:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a federal court action in the Southern District of New York charging Joseph F. Welsh III, of Northport, N.Y., with attempted manipulation of the prices of palladium and platinum futures contracts, including the settlement prices, traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Arjent Capital Markets LLC, Chicago Trading Managers LLC, Spencer Montgomery, and Brian Reynolds with Commodity Pool Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:59:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action charging Colorado-based defendants Arjent Capital Markets LLC, Chicago Trading Managers LLC, Spencer Montgomery, and Brian Reynolds with defrauding commodity pool investors by knowingly or recklessly issuing false account statements for three separate commodity pools.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P., a registered futures commission merchant based in New York, N.Y., agreed to pay a $5.5 million civil monetary penalty and $1.5 million in disgorgement to settle CFTC charges that it failed to diligently supervise accounts that it carried from about May 2007 to December 2009.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:29:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced the filing and simultaneous settlement of charges against FCStone, LLC, a Chicago-based registered futures commission merchant, and Commodity Operations Inc., formerly a registered introducing broker in New York, for failing to diligently supervise the account of a floor broker.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged MBF Clearing Corp., a registered futures commission merchant, with violating the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations concerning segregation of customer funds and with supervision failures.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:06:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a civil enforcement action against Angus Jackson, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Martin H. Bedick, Angus Jackson’s Chief Financial Officer, of Boca Raton, Fla., and Martin B. Rosenthal of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:19:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order requiring City Credit Capital, (UK) Ltd., of London, U.K., to pay a $140,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:57:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a civil enforcement action against Christopher Varlesi of Chicago, Ill., individually and doing business as Gold Coast Futures and Forex.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:33:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against futures commission merchant J.P. Morgan Securities LLC of New York, N.Y., for confirming the execution of a prearranged trade of ten year U.S. Treasury Note Futures spreads, which was a fictitious sale and noncompetitively executed on the Chicago Board of Trade.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against BlackRock Institutional Trust Company NA, of San Francisco, Calif., for engaging in prearranged trades that were noncompetitively executed and fictitious sales in ten year U.S. Treasury Note Futures spreads on the Chicago Board of Trade.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Illinois Orders Windsor Brokers, Ltd. of Cyprus to Pay $140,000 Civil Monetary Penalty, Cease Soliciting U.S. Customers, and Modify Website</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:43:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order requiring Windsor Brokers, Ltd., of Limassol, Cyprus, to pay a $140,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:41:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama charging John David Stroud and his companies, Stroud Capital Management, LLC, TS Capital Partners, LLC, and TS Capital Management, LLC, all of Auburn, Ala., with fraud and misappropriation in operating two commodity pools.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Illinois Orders Australian Firm Enfinium Pty Ltd to Pay $80,000 Penalty, Cease Soliciting U.S. Customers, and Modify Website</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:48:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order against defendant Enfinium Pty Ltd of Sydney, Australia, for soliciting and accepting foreign currency orders from U.S. customers without being registered with the CFTC.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges IAG Capital Management, LLC and William Patrick Kelly, of Conn., with Commodity Pool Fraud, Commingling Pool Funds, and Making False Statements to the NFA</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:58:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges that IAG Capital Management, LLC and William Patrick Kelly of Weston, Conn., who operated a $6 million commodity pool called the IAG Multi Strategy Fund LP, wrongfully used more than $320,000 of pool participants’ funds for Kelly’s personal use, made false statements to the National Futures Association, and commingled pool participants’ funds with their own funds.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:11:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a federal civil enforcement action charging Alexander Giap of Annandale, Va., with fraud by acting as an unregistered commodity trading advisor and operating two separate fraudulent schemes involving commodity futures trading.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:22:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against James Giacomo Brandolino, previously of Joliet, Ill., for conducting a number of fraudulent commodity futures investment schemes and misappropriating customer funds.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:44:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order requiring former Chicago Board of Trade floor trader and registered floor broker David Sklena of Skokie, Ill., to pay a disgorgement and civil monetary penalty of $6,608,750 for aiding and abetting another trader’s scheme to cheat customers who placed orders in Five-Year Treasury Note futures contracts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:57:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and settled an action against Aaron Klein of Rochester, N.Y., finding that Klein acted as an undisclosed controlling person and principal of a Commodity Trading Advisor registered with the CFTC.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Jeffrey J. Kinseth of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and his Iowa-based company, Virtual Vision Inc., for fraudulently soliciting individuals to participate in a pooled investment vehicle, misappropriation of investor funds, and issuance of false statements to conceal trading losses and fraud.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders New York Firm D.E. Shaw &amp; Co. L.P. to Pay $140,000 Penalty for Violating Soybean and Corn Futures Speculative Position Limits</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against commodity pool operator D.E. Shaw & Co. L.P., of New York. N.Y., for exceeding speculative position limits in soybean and corn futures contracts in trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Mitchell Brian Huffman of North Carolina with Operating a Fraudulent $3.2 Million Commodity Pool Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:35:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in federal court in North Carolina, charging defendant Mitchell Brian Huffman of Charlotte, N.C., with operating a fraudulent commodity pool scheme that defrauded participants of more than $3.2 million in connection with exchange-traded commodity futures contracts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Texas Resident Robert D. Watson to Pay $31 Million for Defrauding Customers, Misappropriating Millions of Dollars, and Providing Fictitious Records in Forex Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:14:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained federal court consent orders resolving its remaining claims against defendants Robert D. Watson and Daniel J. Petroski, both of Houston, Texas, PrivateFX Global One Ltd., SA, and 36 Holdings Ltd.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Georgia Federal Court Enters Order for Permanent Injunction against Joseph L. Autry, Jr. and His Company, Autry Capital Management LLC, for Commodity Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:06:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court summary judgment order for a permanent injunction against CFTC defendants Joseph L. Autry, Jr. and his company, Autry Capital Management LLC, both of Statesboro, Ga.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:06:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a federal court action in the District of Puerto Rico charging Angel Fernando Collazo of Salinas, Puerto Rico, and his companies, ACJ Capital, Inc. and Solid View Capital LLC, both of San Juan, with fraud and misappropriation in a $1 million off-exchange leveraged foreign currency Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Obtains Permanent Injunction against British Virgin Island Firm InterForex, Inc. for Acting as an Unregistered Retail Forex Dealer; Firm Ordered to Modify Website</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:19:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order that permanently bars defendant InterForex, Inc., of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, from soliciting or accepting orders to trade foreign currency from U.S. customers who are not Eligible Contract Participants. The order also permanently bars InterForex from offering to be the counterparty to U.S. customers’ forex transactions, without registering with the CFTC.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a consent order of permanent injunction against defendants Mark A. Vanderploeg formerly of Glendale, Ariz., and his companies, Midwest Land & Livestock, Inc. (MLL), of Glendale, Ariz., SKV Farms Inc. (SKV) of Omaha, Neb., and DCV Farms, Inc. (DCV) of Minneapolis, Minn., for allegedly engaging in an illegal, false reporting scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:50:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced the filing of an enforcement action against Christopher B. Cornett of Buda, Texas, charging him with solicitation fraud, issuing false account statements, misappropriating pool participants’ funds, and failing to register in connection with an off-exchange foreign currency fraud.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order requiring Anthony Eugene Linton of Tucson, Ariz., doing business as The Private Trading Pool, to pay a total of $1,776,610 in restitution, disgorgement, and a civil monetary penalty for defrauding investors in a commodity pool Ponzi scheme involving off-exchange foreign currency trading.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:49:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC today issued a Consumer Advisory warning the public to beware of promises of easy profits to be made from rising prices in gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and other precious metals.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:32:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC today filed and simultaneously settled charges against Timothy Michael Murphy of Redding, Conn., and his New York-based company, Centurion Global Capital Management LLC, for fraudulently soliciting at least 40 customers to participate in a commodity pool.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a civil complaint against two Indian citizens, Deepak Singhal, who resides in Mountain View, Calif., and his mother, Meera Singhal, who resides in India.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Illinois Federal Court Imposes $140,000 Civil Monetary Penalty on Foreign Currency Firm, FXOpen Investments Inc., for Acting as an Unregistered Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:52:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order requiring defendant FXOpen Investments Inc., a foreign firm, to pay a $140,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that it illegally solicited members of the public to engage in forex transactions and operated as a Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED) without being registered with the CFTC.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:29:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC entered an order requiring Newedge USA, LLC (Newedge), a New York-based futures commission merchant, to pay a $700,000 civil monetary penalty for submitting inaccurate large trader reports to the CFTC and for violating a February 7, 2011, CFTC order directing Newedge to improve the accuracy and timeliness of its large trader reporting.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders CFTC Defendant Larry Benny Groover to Pay $2.69 Million for Defrauding Customers in Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:14:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order requiring CFTC defendant Larry Benny Groover of Gunter, Texas, to pay a total of $2.69 million in restitution and a civil monetary penalty for defrauding customers and misappropriating funds in a forex Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Michigan Federal Court Orders Jeffrey L. Groendyke and JG Forex Fund to Pay over $1.4 Million for Operating a Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:29:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that it obtained a federal consent order for permanent injunction against CFTC defendant Jeffrey L. Groendyke (doing business as JG Forex Fund) of Middleville, Mich., requiring him to pay $963,141 in restitution and a $420,000 civil monetary penalty.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Pro Trading Course, LLC, and Richard Regan with Solicitation Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:36:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged Chicago-based Pro Trading Course, LLC (PTC), a registered commodity trading advisor, and Richard Regan, PTC’s sole principal and a registered floor broker with fraudulently soliciting members of the public to enroll in a commodity futures training program.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc. to Pay $350,000 Civil Penalty for Violating Cotton Futures Speculative Position Limits</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:05:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc. (MLCI) agreed to pay a $350,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that it exceeded speculative position limits in Cotton No. 2 futures contracts in trading on the IntercontinentalExchange U.S. (ICE).  

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	 <title>CFTC Charges San Diego Resident Charles Steven Goodie and His Company, CSG Commodity Services Group, with Commodity Pool Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:35:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced the filing of an enforcement action charging Charles Steven Goodie and his company, CSG Commodity Service Group, both of San Diego, Calif., with fraudulently operating a commodity futures pool and with registration and disclosure violations.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Brant L. Rushton and Melissa C. Rushston and their Company, Summit Trading &amp; Capital LLC, with Misappropriation and Issuing False Statements in Fraudulent Commodity Scheme </title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:13:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained an emergency court order on November 29, 2011, freezing assets held by defendants Brant and Melissa Rushton and their wholly-owned Illinois company, Summit Trading & Capital LLC.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Mississippi Residents Gary and Bradley Futch and Their Company, Tradewind Investments, LLC, with Commodity Options Fraud </title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:01:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action charging Gary Futch and his son, Bradley A. Futch, both of Meridian, Miss., and their firm Tradewind Investments, LLC, with commodity options fraud.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders London-based Enskilda Futures Ltd. and Its Swedish Principal, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, to Pay a $150,000 Civil Penalty for Supervision Violations</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:34:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Enskilda Futures Ltd. (EFL), a London-based futures commission merchant (FCM), and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) for failing to diligently supervise accounts carried by EFL in violation of CFTC regulation 166.3.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Wisconsin-based Forex Dealer Jacob Juma Omukwe and His Companies to Pay over $2.6 Million in Restitution and Penalties in Foreign Currency Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:20:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a supplemental consent order requiring defendants Jacob Juma Omukwe and his companies, JadeFX, LTD and Jade Investments Group, LLC, jointly and severally to pay over $2.6 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties to settle a CFTC anti-fraud enforcement action filed in March 2011.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges California Residents Robert Cannone, Thomas Breen, and Francis Franco and Their Company, National Equities Holdings, Inc. with $1.4 Million Commodity Pool Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:48:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., charging defendants Robert J. Cannone of Laguna Niguel, Thomas B. Breen of San Juan Capistrano, Francis Franco of Anaheim, and their company National Equity Holdings, Inc. of Laguna Niguel, with fraudulently operating a $1.4 million commodity futures pool and with registration violations<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Files Enforcement Actions against International Commodity Advisors, ProfitStars Int’l Corp., and Paragon FX Enterprises, Alleging Violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Forex Regulations</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:28:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed separate but related civil injunctive complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with the operation of two forex pooled investment vehicles operated by International Commodity Advisors of Marietta, Ga., and ProfitStars Int’l Corp. of Dallas, Texas. The CFTC filed a third injunctive action against Paragon FX Enterprises, LLC of New York, N.Y.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders South Florida Resident Alan A. Grant and his Company, Francis Grant Investments Inc., to Pay $500,000 in Forex Fraud Charges</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:49:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges that Alan A. Grant and his company, Francis Grant Investments Inc. (FGI), of Davie, Fla., committed fraud by failing to disclose to customers that the off-shore foreign currency (forex) pool in which they participated had ceased trading and assets were frozen due to a foreign regulatory action.  Grant and FGI issued false account statements showing profitable trading by the off-shore pool and continued to solicit funds even though the pool was no longer trading.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:56:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing and simultaneous settlement of charges against Velocity Futures, LLC, a registered futures commission merchant, for failing to supervise diligently the handling of its customer accounts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges GID Group, Inc., Rodney and Roger Wagner with Fraud and Misappropriation in Connection with a $5.5 Million Forex Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today the filing of a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, against GID Group, Inc. (GID), a Texas corporation, and its agents and officers, brothers Rodney and Roger.  The defendants, both of Grand Prairie, Texas, were charged with operating a fraudulent off-exchange foreign currency (forex) ‘Ponzi” scheme in which they solicited and accepted approximately $5.5 million.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Denver Man Nicholas Trimble and His Two Companies with Solicitation Fraud and Misappropriating Customer Funds in Million Dollar Foreign Currency Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:30:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil injunctive complaint charging defendants Nicholas Trimble and his companies, Capstone FX Quantitative Analysis, Inc. (Capstone) and Beekeepers Fund Capital Management, LLC (Beekeepers), all of Denver, Colo., with fraudulently soliciting at least $1.1 million from customers to trade foreign currency (forex) through pooled and managed trading accounts using a proprietary forex trading system.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Obtains Orders against Patrick Rakotonanahary and his Company, Cyber Market Group LLC, for Defrauding Customers in a Multi-Million Dollar Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:49:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that the Honorable Susan Oki Mollway of the U.S District Court for the District of Hawaii entered a consent order of permanent injunction against Patrick Rakotonanahary, formerly of Punta Gorda, Fla.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Court Orders Jeffery A. Lowrance and His Company to Pay More than $4.5 Million for Operating Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a default judgment and permanent injunction against Jeffery Alan Lowrance, formerly of Houston, Texas, and his New Zealand company, First Capital Savings and Loan, requiring them to pay jointly and severally a $3.3 million civil monetary penalty and $1.2 million in restitution for a fraudulent off-exchange foreign currency scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Charlotte, NC, Couple and Their Companies to Pay $24 Million for Defrauding Customers in Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:38:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court supplemental consent order requiring defendants Sidney S. Hanson, Charlotte M. Hanson, and their companies, Queen Shoals, LLC, Queen Shoals II, LLC, and Select Fund, LLC, to pay $24 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties for defrauding customers and misappropriating millions of dollars in a foreign currency Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>North Carolina Federal Court Orders Rodney W. Whitney, Nicholas T. Cox, and Integra Capital Management, LLC, to Pay Over $6.9 Million for Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained federal court orders requiring Rodney W. Whitney of Thomasville, N.C., Nicholas T. Cox of Denton, N.C., and Integra Capital Management, LLC, which formerly operated out of High Point, N.C., to pay over $6.9 million in restitution, disgorgement, and civil monetary penalties.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Seeks to Revoke or Suspend the Registration of Raleigh Capital Management, Inc.</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:21:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced the filing of a notice of intent to revoke or restrict the registration of Raleigh Capital Management, Inc., a Chicago, Ill.-based commodity pool operator.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Files Anti-Fraud Action against Idahoan Michael Justin Hoopes for Operating a Multi-Million Dollar Ponzi Scheme that Defrauded Mostly Idaho Residents</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:16:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a civil complaint charging Michael Justin Hoopes of Rexburg, Idaho, with fraud and misappropriation in connection with a commodity futures Ponzi scheme that defrauded Idaho residents, among others.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Texas Residents Linda Harris, Chance Harris and Two of Their Companies with Solicitation Fraud, Misrepresentation, and Misappropriation in Multi-Million Dollar Forex Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:42:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, charging Linda Faye Harris, Chance Domel Harris, CDH Forex Investments, LLC and CDH Global Holdings, LLC, all of Flower Mound, Texas, with solicitation fraud, making false statements, and misappropriation of investors’ funds in connection with the trading of off-exchange foreign currency (forex) contracts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Obtains Permanent Injunction against California Resident Scott Bottolfson and His Two Companies for Defrauding Customers in Multi-Million Dollar Commodity Pool Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Judge Anthony J. Battaglia of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California entered a consent order of permanent injunction against Scott Bottolfson and Spirit Investments, Inc., both of Encinitas, Calif., and Increase Investments, Inc. of Reno, Nev., requiring them jointly and severally to pay a civil monetary penalty of $6,813,462.51.  The order also imposes permanent trading and registration bans against the defendants.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:36:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina entered an order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Barki, LLC of Mint Hill, N.C.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Texas Resident Ray M. White and CRW Management LP to Pay More than $19 Million for Defrauding Customers and Misappropriating Millions of Dollars in Forex Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:53:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained federal court consent orders resolving its remaining claims against defendants Ray M. White and CRW Management LP and relief defendants Christopher R. White and Hurricane Motorsports, LLC, all of Mansfield, Texas.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:57:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that its Division of Enforcement filed 99 enforcement actions in Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 2011), the highest yearly tally in the agency’s history and a 74 percent increase over the prior fiscal year.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Convict Perry Jay Griggs and His Wife to Pay $2.1 Million Civil Penalty for Multi-Million Dollar Commodity Pool Fraud and Misappropriation</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:41:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order requiring defendants Perry Jay Griggs, his wife, Rachelle Griggs, and their company, Aloha Trading Company, Inc., all of Las Vegas, Nev., to jointly and severally pay a $2.1 million civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that they operated a multi-million dollar commodity futures Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:17:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges that Forex Capital Markets LLC (FXCM) failed to supervise diligently its personnel’s handling of more than 57,000 customer accounts that traded on FXCM’s forex trading platforms.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:07:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a civil enforcement action charging Oscar Hernandez of Miami, Fla., and his Miami-based companies, Midway Trading Company, LLC and Conquest Investment Group, Inc., with operating a $3 million commodity pool Ponzi scheme and misappropriating participants’ funds.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Alpha Trade Group, S.A. and Six Individuals with Fraud and Misappropriation in Connection with a $1.7 Million Foreign Currency and Futures Scheme </title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida charging defendants Alpha Trade Group, S.A. a/k/a Revolution Network Ltd., of Panama, Jose Cecilio Martinez Beltran, Welinton Bautista Castillo, Maria Alvarez Gutierrez, Yehodiz Padua Valentin, and Maria Asela Rodriguez, all of Orlando, Fla., and Francisco Amaury Suero Matos of Mexico, with operating a fraudulent $1.7 million off-exchange foreign currency and commodity futures scheme and misappropriation of customer funds.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:38:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled an administrative proceeding against McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, a nationwide public accounting firm with offices in Chicago, Ill., and a McGladrey partner, David Shane, a certified public accountant licensed in Illinois.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges California Resident James D. Crombie and Paron Capital Management, LLC with Making False, Fictitious, or Fraudulent Statements to the National Futures Association</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:05:00 UTC</pubDate>
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:46:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal court in Charlotte, N.C., entered an emergency order freezing assets held by defendants Toby D. Hunter of Waxhaw, N.C., and his companies, Prestige Capital Advisors, LLC (Prestige) and D2W Capital Management, LLC (D2W) of Charlotte, N.C.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:24:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil complaint charging Jeffrey Liskov and his company, EagleEye Asset Management, LLC (EEAM), both of Plymouth, Mass., with cheating and defrauding at least one customer in the United States of over $3 million of retirement funds while trading off-exchange foreign currency contracts (forex) on the customer’s behalf.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:09:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 Cases bring to 25 the number of firms sued by the CFTC for failing to register under the 2008 Farm Bill, the Dodd-Frank Act and the CFTC’s regulations.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges that Roy Scarboro, Jr. of Archdale, N.C., fraudulently solicited approximately $713,000 from customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:31:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a final default judgment against defendant Carmine Garofalo, an Italian national who purports to reside in Tunisia, requiring him pay $614,925 in restitution and a $1,844,775 civil monetary penalty.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Craig A. Taffel, a registered floor broker located in Chicago, Ill., for acting as a futures commission merchant (FCM) without being registered.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:19:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Tenco, Inc. (Tenco), a registered futures commission merchant (FCM) located in Chicago, Ill., for failing to diligently supervise its employees and agents and for placing trades without proper authorization from the account holder.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Dearborn Trading, Inc. (Dearborn), a commodity pool operator (CPO), and Joel Bronstein (Bronstein), Dearborn’s owner and principal, for failing to file a closing Annual Report (liquidation statement) for Dearborn Trading Fund, LLC, a commodity pool operated by Dearborn.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:46:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that on August 18, 2011 a federal court in California entered an order freezing the assets of defendants Douglas Elsworth Wilson of Poway, Calif., and three California companies that he controls and manages, Elsworth Berg Capital Management LLC, Elsworth Berg Inc., and Elsworth Berg FX LLC.
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:29:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged Blue Sky Capital Management Corp. of Lebanon, Tenn., and its principal, Gregory M. Schneider of Mount Juliet, Tenn., with making false statements to the National Futures Association.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order finding that defendants Gary D. Martin and Brenda K. Martin of St. Augustine, Fla., and their company, Queen Shoals Consultants, LLC, defrauded customers in an off-exchange foreign currency scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:06:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court default judgment order requiring Otmane El Rhazi to pay over $1.49 million in restitution and a civil monetary penalty for unlawful trading, misappropriation, and fraud.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained an emergency federal court order freezing the assets of defendants Anthony J. Klatch II of Tampa, Fla., and American Private Equity, LLC of Los Angeles, Calif., as well as three Commodity Pool Operators controlled by Klatch, ARM Capital Management, LLC, and TASK Capital Management, LLC), both of New York, N.Y., and Vigilant Capital Management, LLC of Center Valley, Pa.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:31:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges that Forex Capital Markets Ltd. of London, U.K. acted as a retail foreign exchange dealer (RFED) by conducting retail leveraged forex transactions with U.S. customers without registering with the CFTC under the agency’s regulation 5.3(a)(6)(i).<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:46:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged Susan G. Davis of Jersey City, N.J. and St. Petersburg, Fla., David E. Howard II of Woodstock, Ga., and their New York companies, Forex Capital Trading Group, Inc., and Forex Capital Trading Partners, Inc., and Joseph Burgos of Rutherford, N.J., and his company, Highland Stone Capital Management, LLC, with fraudulently soliciting more than $1.3 million from at least 73 customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency contracts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:49:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Judge Otis D. Wright II of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division, entered orders for default judgment and permanent injunction against defendants New Golden Investment Group, LLC of West Covina, Calif., and its principals, Ruben Gonzalez  also of West Covina, and Jose Naranjo, formerly of La Mirada, Calif.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Illinois Orders Jay C. Nolan and His Company, Lodge Capital Group, LLC, to Pay $825,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Multi-Million Commodity Pool Fraud Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:50:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Judge Honorable Charles R. Norgle of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a consent order requiring defendants Jay Nolan of Wilmette, Ill., and his company, Lodge Capital Group, LLC, jointly and severally to pay an $825,000 civil monetary penalty for commodity pool fraud.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:01:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges that Christopher Louis Pia of North Castle, N.Y., while employed as portfolio manager for Moore Capital Management, LLC, attempted to manipulate the settlement prices of palladium and platinum futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:41:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order imposing more than $2 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties on defendants Jeremiah C. Yancy (a.k.a. Jeremiah C. Glaub) of Atoka, Okla., and his company, Longbranch Group International LLC (a.k.a. Longbranch LLC) of Houston, Texas.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges that Ecoval Dairy Trade, Inc., of Wayne, Pa., attempted to manipulate the daily settlement prices of Non Fat Dry Milk (NFDM) cash-settled futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:05:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that it charged Jeffery Alan Lowrance formerly of Houston, Texas, and his New Zealand-registered company, First Capital Savings and Loan, with operating a Ponzi scheme that fraudulently solicited at least $1 million from approximately 36 members of the general public to trade off-exchange foreign currency (forex) contracts.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that on July 5, 2011, Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a supplemental consent order imposing a $2.1 million civil monetary penalty on Joseph A. Dawson of Fox Lake, Ill.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges that Robert S. Moss, of Charlotte, N.C., fraudulently solicited more than $3 million from 22 individuals to trade options on commodity futures through a commodity pool.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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 		 The CFTC announced that Judge K. Michael K. Moore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered an order of default judgment and permanent injunction order against David L. Ortiz of Vero Beach, Fla., and his companies, Goyep International, Inc. of Vero Beach, Fla., and Royal Returns, Inc. of Hollywood, Fla.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a civil complaint charging CIS Commodities LLC of Henderson, Nev., and its founder and president, Allen Nicholas Ward, of Aspen, Colo., with misappropriation of customer funds and misrepresentations and issuing false written statements to a customer. The complaint also charges Trans Global Investments, LLC, a Nevada company, its President, Charles Leroy Timberlake, of Plano, Texas, Ward, and CIS with misrepresentation and issuing false written statements.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that a federal court in Houston entered an order freezing the assets of Mark E. Rice of Sugar Land, Texas, and his company, Financial Robotics, Inc. of Houston, Texas.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed charges against two air traffic controllers, Louis J. Giddens, Jr. of Fayetteville, Ga., and Anthony W. Dutton of Peachtree City, Ga., as well as commodity trader Michael Gomez of Valrico, Fla., for operating a fraudulent off-exchange foreign currency scheme in which they solicited and accepted approximately $1.4 million from the general public.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:33:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, charging Grace Elizabeth Reisinger of Grand Island, Neb., and ROF Consulting, LLC with operating a fraudulent commodity pool scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:03:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged Flint-McClung Capital LLC of Englewood, Colo., and Shawon McClung of Denver, Colo., with fraud and misappropriation in an off-exchange foreign currency Ponzi scheme in which defendants allegedly fraudulently solicited and accepted at least $1.9 million from at least 10 commodity pool participants since March 2010.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action charging Juvenal Eduardo Machado and his Miami, Fla.-based company, Invers Forex, LLC, with defrauding approximately $786,000 from at least 28 customers, including Machado’s friends, neighbors and members of his church, through a retail foreign currency Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Orders Mark Adrian of Florida to Pay $140,000 Civil Penalty in Fraudulent Foreign Currency Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:10:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Mark Adrian of Delray Beach, Fla., for his role in issuing false statements to customers in a fraudulent foreign currency scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Judge James B. Zagel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a default judgment and permanent injunction against ForInvest Group (aka ForInvests Group LLC).<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Florida Orders Capital Blu Management, LLC, Donovan Davis Jr., Damien Bromfield, Blayne Davis and DD International Holdings, LLC to Pay More than $17 Million for Committing Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:53:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that the Honorable Judge John Antoon II of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ordered Capital Blu Management, LLC of Melbourne, Fla., Donovan Davis Jr. of Palm Bay, Fla., Damien Bromfield of Ocoee, Fla., Blayne Davis of Naples, Fla., and DD International Holdings, LLC of Palm Bay, Fla., jointly and severally to pay restitution of $2,463,592.12.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Victor E. Cilli and his company, Progressive Investment Funds LLC, with Operating a Commodity Pool Ponzi Scheme and Misappropriating Customer Funds</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:49:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged Victor Eugene Cilli and his company, Progressive Investment Funds LLC, both of Hackensack, N.J., with operating a commodity pool Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least four investors of approximately $506,000.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Revokes Registrations of Texas-based M25 Investments, Inc. and M37 Investments, LLC</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:12:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC revoked the registrations of M25 Investments, Inc. and M37 Investments, LLC , of Waxahachie, Texas, as registered Commodity Trading Advisors.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint against Neal E. Hall, of Reidsville, N.C., charging him with failure to register as a commodity trading advisor and failure to include required cautionary statements on his trading system’s website, www.showmemyfuture.com.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Moroccan Resident Richmond Hamilton, Jr., and Chicago Commodity Pool Operator Raleigh Capital Management, Inc. to Pay More than $4 Million in Restitution and a Civil Monetary Penalty for Misappropriation &amp; False Statements to the NFA</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:21:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order requiring defendants Richmond Hamilton, Jr., who lives in Morocco, and Raleigh Capital Management, Inc., a Chicago, Ill.-based registered commodity pool operator, to pay jointly and severally a $3,015,000 civil monetary penalty.  The order also requires Hamilton to pay restitution of $1,005,000.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in Texas Orders Richard D. Theye to Pay More than $6.2 Million for Defrauding Investors in a Multi-Million Dollar Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:02:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal default judgment order requiring defendant Richard D. Theye of Austin, Texas, to pay more than $6.2 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties for operating a commodity pool Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:09:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action charging Jonathan W. Arrington, Michael B. Kratville, Michael J. Welke and their companies, Elite Management Holdings Corp. (EMHC) and MJM Enterprises LLC (MJM), all of Omaha, Neb., with defrauding more than 130 commodity pool participants, the majority of whom are from the greater Omaha area, of at least $4.7 million.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 20:01:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Cadent Financial Services LLC, a registered Chicago, Ill.-based futures commission merchant, for failing to supervise diligently its employees and associated persons (APs) in their handling of commodity futures orders of a guaranteed introducing broker (GIB) of Cadent and the GIB’s AP, sole principal and owner.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Parnon Energy Inc., Arcadia Petroleum Ltd. and Arcadia Energy (Suisse) SA with Price Manipulation in the Crude Oil Market</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 19:43:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 Complaint alleges cross-market trading scheme in 2008 involving accumulation and sell-off of a substantial position in physical crude oil to manipulate futures prices, yielding in excess of $50 million in unlawful profits for defendants.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Florida Firm, American Precious Metals, LLC, and Principals, Sammy J. Goldman and Harry Robert Tanner, Jr., with Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 18:23:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged precious metals firm American Precious Metals, LLC of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and its founders and principals, Sammy J. Goldman of Delray Beach, Fla., and Harry Robert Tanner, Jr. of Lake Worth, Fla., with fraud in connection with offering, purchasing, selling or delivering gold, silver, platinum and palladium to U.S. retail customers on a leveraged basis.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Puerto Rico Resident Angel F. Collazo and ACJ Capital, Inc. with Solicitation Fraud and Issuing False Statements in Off-Exchange Leveraged Foreign Currency Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:20:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint charging Angel Fernando Collazo of Salinas, Puerto Rico, and his company, ACJ Capital, Inc., with fraudulently soliciting at least $1.7 million from at least 18 individuals to trade off-exchange leveraged foreign currency (forex) contracts and issuing false statements to conceal trading losses.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Settles Charges against FX Trading, LLC for Failing to Maintain Minimum Net Capital Required for Futures Commission Merchants</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:06:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that a federal court entered a consent order requiring FX Trading, LLC, of Iselin, N.J., to pay a $110,000 civil monetary penalty for failing to satisfy the minimum financial requirements for CFTC-registered futures commission merchants.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Russian National Marat Yunusov to Pay $500,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Illegal Commodity Futures Trading Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order imposing a $500,000 civil monetary penalty on Marat Yunusov, a Russian national who traded on U.S. futures markets from overseas.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Michigan Man Jeffrey L. Groendyke with Operating a Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme and Misappropriating Customer Funds</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:12:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action charging Jeffrey L. Groendyke of Middleville, Mich., doing business as JG Forex Fund (JGF), with fraud and misappropriation in connection with an off-exchange foreign currency Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 54 customers of at least $953,305 since May 2010.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:35:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Thorbjorn Haveman of Elmhurst, Ill., for executing hundreds of fictitious, noncompetitive and unauthorized trades over an 18-month period and fraudulently misappropriating profits from the trades.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:25:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC  filed and simultaneously settled charges against Howard Winell, Winell Associates, Inc. and Maxie Partners GP, LLC, all of New York, N.Y.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Files Anti-Fraud Action against California Companies 20/20 Trading Company, Inc. and 20/20 Precious Metals, Inc. and their Employees, Bharat Adatia, Sharief McDowell and Todd Krejci</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:11:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an anti-fraud enforcement action against 20/20 Trading Company, Inc. and 20/20 Precious Metals, Inc., both of Laguna Niguel, Calif., and their employees, Bharat “Brad” Adatia of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., Sharief “Sharice” D. McDowell of Loma Linda, Calif., and Todd Krejci of Trabuco Canyon, Calif.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>New York Federal Court Orders Brian Kim and Liquid Capital Management, LLC, to Pay More than $12 Million in Restitution and Monetary Sanctions for Commodity Pool Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:58:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC on April 15, 2011, obtained a federal court order imposing more than $12 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties on defendants Brian Kim and his company, Liquid Capital Management, LLC, for fraud in connection with the operation of a commodity pool.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Receiver Makes $792 Million Initial Distribution to Investors in New York Defendants Paul Greenwood’s and Stephen Walsh’s $1.3 Billion Investment Ponzi Scam Charged by the CFTC and SEC</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that based on an order entered on March 21, 2011, by the U.S. District Court for Southern District of New York (SDNY), the court-appointed Receiver, Robb Evans & Associates, LLC, has begun an initial distribution of approximately $792 million to investors in a commodity pool operated by CFTC defendants Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:21:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an enforcement action charging an employee of Citigroup Global Markets Ltd., Otmane El Rhazi, a Moroccan national and resident of the United Kingdom, with noncompetitive trading, fraud and misappropriation from a Citibank, N.A. proprietary account.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges California Resident Lyndon Lydell Parrilla and His Company, Green Tree Capital, with Fraud in Multi-Million Dollar Forex Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:55:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged Lyndon Lydell Parrilla and his company, Green Tree Capital, both of Woodland Hills, Calif., with operating a fraudulent multi-million dollar foreign exchange scheme since at least 2009.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:55:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC simultaneously filed 13 enforcement actions in Federal District Courts in Chicago, the District of Columbia, Kansas City and New York, alleging that 14 entities are illegally soliciting members of the public to engage in foreign currency (forex) transactions and that they are operating without being registered with the CFTC.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:45:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained $615,000 in disgorgement and a civil monetary penalty in a federal court consent order against defendant Kuen Cheol Song, who resided in Singapore during the relevant time period, for engaging in an illegal, fictitious trading scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:49:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged New Century Investment Management LLC of Southampton, Pa., and its principal, Ward Onsa of Marco Island, Fla., with solicitation fraud, misappropriation and issuing false account statements to commodity pool participants.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Florida Precious Metals Company Kastle &amp; Hawke, Inc. and its Principals, James A. Ward and Nathaniel R. Walker, with Fraud</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:48:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged precious metals firm Kastle & Hawke, Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and its principals, James A. Ward, also of Ft. Lauderdale, and Nathaniel R. Walker of Lauderhill, Fla., with fraud in connection with purchasing, selling or delivering gold, silver, platinum and palladium to customers on a leveraged basis.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>U.S. District Court Orders Texas Man Willie Lee Cloud, Jr. and his Company, C &amp; R Financial, Inc., to Pay More than $5.35 Million in Restitution and a Civil Monetary Penalty for Operating a Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:54:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that a federal court entered a default judgment order requiring defendants Willie L. Cloud, Jr. and his company, C & R Financial, Inc., both of Houston, Texas, to pay restitution of $280,170.66 and a $5,070,000 million civil monetary penalty for operating an off-exchange foreign currency Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC and State of California Charge The Trade Tech Institute, Inc., Technology Trading International, Inc., Robert Sorchini and Richard Carter with Fraudulently Soliciting More than 600 Managed Commodity Trading Accounts </title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:48:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC today announced that a federal court in Los Angeles entered a restraining order against defendants The Trade Tech Institute, Inc., Technology Trading International, Inc., Robert Sorchini and Richard Carter freezing defendants’ assets, prohibiting the destruction or alteration of their books and records, and requiring defendants to provide an accounting of all funds and assets under their control.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Sanctions Hernando Chovil of McLean, Virginia, for Fraud in Connection with Operating a Commodity Pool</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:42:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The filed and simultaneously settled charges that Hernando Chovil of McLean, Va., committed fraud in connection with operating a commodity pool.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Sanctions Bunge Global Markets, Inc. $550,000 for Entering Pre-Market Soybean Futures Orders on Globex that Caused Non-Bona Fide Prices to be Reported</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:20:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC today filed and simultaneously settled charges against Bunge Global Markets, Inc. of White Plains, N.Y., for entering orders to purchase or sell soybean futures contracts in pre-opening trading sessions on Globex that Bunge had no intention of having executed.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court in North Carolina Orders Dennis Todd Hagemann and Yellowstone Partners, Inc. to Pay More than $1.6 Million for Defrauding Investors in a Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:02:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal default judgment order requiring defendants Dennis Todd Hagemann and his company, Yellowstone Partners, Inc., both of Raleigh, N.C., to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties for defrauding investors in a foreign currency Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>CFTC Charges Florida Resident Jeremy M. Globe and his Company, GlobeFX Club, Inc., with Making False Statements to the National Futures Association</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:38:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC  charged Gary D. Martin and his wife, Brenda K. Martin of St. Augustine, Fla., and their company, Queen Shoals Consultants, LLC, of Charlotte, N.C., with defrauding customers of more than $1.44 million through a retail foreign currency trading scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>Federal Court Orders Brookshire Raw Materials Management, LLC,  John M. Marshall, Stephen Z. Adams and Other Companies to Pay More than $15.8 Million for Defrauding Pool Participants and Misappropriating Millions of Dollars in a Commodity Pool Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:02:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court consent order requiring defendants Brookshire Raw Materials Management, LLC, of Barrington, Ill., and its principals, John M. Marshall and Stephen Z. Adams, Brookshire Raw Materials Group, Inc.  and Brookshire and Company, Ltd., all of Toronto, Canada, to pay more than $15.8 million in disgorgement and a civil monetary penalty for defrauding commodity pool investors.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:27:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan charging defendants Alan James Watson and Cash Flow Financial LLC, both of Clinton Township, Mich., and Michael S. Potts of Mountville, Pa., with fraudulently soliciting and accepting at least $45 million from more than 600 individuals and entities to participate in a commodity pool to trade commodity futures contracts and securities.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:13:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin charging defendants Jacob Juma Omukwe, JadeFX Ltd. and Jade Investments Group, LLC, all of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., with operating a fraudulent off-exchange retail foreign currency scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:34:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order imposing more than $1.1 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties on Helmut H. Weber, of Scottsdale, Ariz., for operating a fraudulent off-exchange foreign currency (forex) scheme from at least June 2008 through January 2009.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:57:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission obtained a federal court order imposing more than $49.7 million restitution and civil monetary penalties on defendants Dennis R. Bolze of Gatlinburg, Tenn., and his Las Vegas-based company, Centurion Asset Management, Inc.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission obtained a federal court order imposing more than $46.9 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties on Robert D. Bame of Moreno Valley, Calif., and his firm, Forward Investment Group, LLC of Santa Monica, Calif.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <title>New York Federal Court Orders Staten Island Resident Jeffrey Shalhoub and Jeff Shalhoub Investments to Pay More than $700,000 in Connection with a Commodity Futures Ponzi Scheme</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:48:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained more than $700,000 in restitution and civil monetary penalties in a federal court order against Jeffrey Shalhoub of Staten Island, N.Y., and his company, Jeff Shalhoub Investments (JSI) of Long Island City, N.Y., in connection with the fraudulent operation of a commodity futures Ponzi scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:06:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an anti-fraud enforcement action against defendants David L. Ortiz of Vero Beach, Fla., and his companies, Goyep International, Inc., of Vero Beach, Fla., and Royal Returns, Inc., of Hollywood, Fla., charging them with operating a fraudulent off-exchange foreign currency (forex) scheme that accepted funds totaling at least $420,000 from at least 10 customers.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:21:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed a Notice of Intent to Suspend, Revoke or Restrict the Registrations of M25 Investments, Inc. (M25) and M37 Investments, LLC (M37), registered Commodity Trading Advisors of Waxahachie, Texas.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:18:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an anti-fraud civil lawsuit charging defendants Randall Lynn Stuckey of St. Peters, Mo., and his Missouri-based business entities, Stuckey Group, L.P., Stuckey Group II, L.P. and Oakwood Development Company L.P. (collectively, the Stuckey Common Enterprise), with operating an illegal off-exchange foreign currency scheme that defrauded more than 65 customers out of at least $2.8 million.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:39:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. of New York, N.Y., for engaging in wash sales and causing the execution of noncompetitive transactions of Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygen Blending (RB) gasoline futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:27:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order freezing the assets of defendant Larry Benny Groover of Gunter, Texas, charged with operating a $1.4 million foreign currency Ponzi scheme and misappropriating customer funds for his personal use.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:39:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order freezing the assets held by defendants Keith F. Simmons of West Jefferson, N.C., Bryan Coats of Clayton, N.C., Jonathan Davey of Newark, Ohio, and numerous corporate entities controlled by them.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:10:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order freezing assets held by defendants Brian Kim and Liquid Capital Management, LLC, both of New York, N.Y.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:28:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an anti-fraud civil lawsuit charging defendants PMC Strategy, LLC of Monroe, N.C., and its principals, Michael Hudspeth of Statesville, N.C., and Timothy Bailey of Monroe, N.C., with committing fraud in connection with operating a foreign currency Ponzi scheme that solicited at least $669,000 from more than 22 individuals since June 2008.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed an anti-fraud enforcement action charging Hasaan R. Steel of Brooklyn, N.Y., with fraudulently soliciting more than $1 million from 28 participants to invest in a commodity pool to trade commodity futures and securities.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:55:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that Newedge USA, LLC, a Chicago-based futures commission merchant, will pay a $140,000 civil monetary penalty and disgorge $80,910 to settle CFTC charges of exceeding speculative position limits in the October 2009 live cattle futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange by more than 4,000 contracts and failing to provide accurate and timely reports to the CFTC regarding their large trader positions.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:55:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC announced that a federal jury sitting in Orlando, Fla., returned a verdict on February 3, 2011, finding that Damien Bromfield of Ocoee, Fla., and Donovan Davis, Jr. of Palm Bay, Fla., violated federal commodities law and CFTC regulations when, in connection with a commodity pool they operated, they stole customer funds and lied to customers by issuing false account statements that represented that customers were making money when, in fact, they were losing money.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:17:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges that James M. Peister and his company, Northstar International Group, Inc., defrauded commodity pool participants by concealing trading losses and using participants’ funds to make payments to other participants and for business and personal expenses.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:54:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained more than $84 million in disgorgement and civil monetary penalties in a federal summary judgment order against defendants Charles E. Hays and his company, Crossfire Trading, LLC, both of Rosemount, Minn.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:33:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained a federal court order freezing assets held by defendants Robert J. Andres, Winsome Investment Trust, both of Houston, Texas, Robert L. Holloway of San Diego, Calif., and US Ventures LC of Salt Lake City, Utah.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:33:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Andrew W. Daniels of Hinsdale, Ill., Edward Taylor of Naperville, Ill., and Daniels Trading Group LLC (DTG) of Chicago, Ill., for violating speculative position limits in the Chicago Board of Trade’s (CBOT) rough rice futures contracts and for willfully concealing material facts from the CME Group, Inc. (CME).<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:10:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained more than $4 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties in a federal judgment order against defendants Beau Diamond and his company, Diamond Ventures LLC, both of Sarasota, Fla.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:04:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC obtained an emergency federal court order freezing the assets of defendant Anthony Eugene Linton of Tucson, Ariz., dba The Private Trading Pool.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled fraud charges against Alan F. Dasher, a Philadelphia-based Commodity Trading Advisor.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:09:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC charged Scott Bottolfson and Spirit Investments, Inc., both of Encinitas, Calif., and Increase Investments, Inc. of Reno, Nev., with fraudulently soliciting approximately $14 million from 30 individuals to invest in two commodity pools to trade commodity futures contracts and options on commodity futures.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:32:00 UTC</pubDate>
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 		 The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Forex Auto Profits, LLC and its founder, Darren L. Shanks, formerly of South Jordan, Utah, for fraud and misappropriation in connection with operating a foreign currency scheme.<br/><br/><br/>
	  	 
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