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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOREIGN CURRENCY SALESMEN TO REPAY CUSTOMERS MORE THAN $870,000, 4940-04
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CFTC CHARGES SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, BUSINESSMAN & WEBSITE OPERATOR JAMES WEATHERFORD WITH FRAUD IN SOLICITING CUSTOMERS TO TRADE S&P 500 E-MINI FUTURES CONTRACTS, 4939-04
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CFTC CHARGES PANAMANIAN CORPORATION WITH SALE OF ILLEGAL OFF-EXCHANGE FOREIGN CURRENCY FUTURES CONTRACTS TO CUSTOMERS; CFTC Alleges that Axess Trade Co., Inc. Illegally Solicits Customers Through the Internet to Trade Foreign Currency Futures Contracts, 4938-04
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES AND OTHERS TO PAY MORE THAN $100 MILLION IN RESTITUTION AND PENALTIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCY FUTURES FRAUD ACTION; Federal Court Finds All Defendants Liable for Fraud and Illegal Sale of Foreign Currency Futures Contracts, 4937-04
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CFTC FINDS THAT FLORIDA FIRM FIRST INVESTORS GROUP OF THE PALM BEACHES, INC. AND ITS EMPLOYEES COMMITTED FRAUD IN SOLICITING CUSTOMERS; Respondents William Scott Cordo and Mitchell Stephen Davis Ordered to pay $600,000 in Civil Penalties, 4932-04
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COURT ENTERS DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST FLORIDA FOREIGN CURRENCY FIRM AND ITS OFFICERS GRANTING OVER $350,000 IN RESTITUTION TO CUSTOMERS IN 2003 CFTC ENFORCEMENT ACTION; Judgment Entered Against Defendants Bibas Levy Corp., Zacarias Bibas, and Hassan Sharam Stemming From CFTC Charges That They Made False Profit Claims and Misrepresented their Performance Record and the Risks of Foreign Currency Futures Trading, 4930-04
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JAPANESE FIRM CHARGED WITH PARTICIPATING IN FOREIGN CURRENCY SCAM THAT DEFRAUDED MORE THAN 300 CUSTOMERS OF OVER $5 MILLION; U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Also Names Four Relief Defendants Who Received Ill-Gotten Gains, 4929-04
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CFTC NOTES THE ARRESTS OF SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN AN ALLEGED FOREX INVESTMENT FRAUD; CFTC Filed a Federal Civil Case in 2002 Based On Same Underlying Facts, 4928-04
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CFTC Fines Swiss Company Barry Callebaut Sourcing AG for Executing Illegal Wash Trades on U.S. Markets, 4927-04
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CFTC SETTLES CASE WITH FORMER ELECTRICITY TRADER FOR EXECUTING ILLEGAL WASH TRADES; Trader Agrees to Cooperate, 4925-04
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CFTC CHARGES COMMERCIAL HEDGE SERVICES, PRIME TRADING COMPANY, AND LAWRENCE JOSEPH VOLF -- ALL OF NEBRASKA -- WITH FRAUD; Introducing Broker and his Company Allegedly Made Unauthorized, Speculative Trades in Commodity Hedge Accounts that Caused Farmers $5 Million in Losses, 4924-04
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CFTC CHARGES MARYLAND MAN AND HIS COMPANY WITH DEFRAUDING CUSTOMERS IN FOREX SCAM; Arthur John Keeffe, II and Calvary Currencies LLC Allegedly Fraudulently Solicited Over $400,000 from Investors to Trade Illegal, Off-Exchange Foreign Currency Futures Contracts, 4921-04
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ENRON SEEKS BANKRUPTCY COURT APPROVAL TO ENTER INTO PROPOSED SETTLEMENT WITH THE CFTC; Proposed Settlement Would Resolve CFTC Complaint Charging Enron With Manipulation of Natural Gas Prices in July 2001, and Other Violations, 4920-04
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CFTC CHARGES UNITED KINGDOM CORPORATION AND ITS TWO PRINCIPALS WITH SALE OF ILLEGAL OFF-EXCHANGE FUTURES CONTRACTS TO U.S. INVESTORS; CFTC Alleges that E Net Speculation Ltd., Patrice Cornaz, and Athos Socratous Illegally Solicit U.S. Investors Via the Internet to Trade Commodity Futures Contracts through a Foreign Website, 4918-04
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CFTC FILES AND SETTLES REGISTRATION CLAIM AGAINST JEFFREY ALLEN OF HOUSTON, TEXAS; CFTC Order Finds that Allen Failed to Register as a Commodity Trading Advisor, 4917-04
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NEW YORK FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) FIRM CHARGED WITH STEALING MORE THAN $2.2 MILLION IN COMMODITY SCAM; CFTC Sues Lexington Royce & Associates and Artour Arakelian, Alleging They Defrauded More Than 50 Customers, 4916-04
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CFTC FINDS THAT COLORADO TRADING ADVISOR USED WEBSITE TO MISLEAD PUBLIC ABOUT PROFITABILITY OF COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING SYSTEMS AND SERVICES; Respondents Roy M. Sidewitz and Qi2 Technologies, Inc. Settle Charges That They Made False Claims About Commodity Futures Products and Services, 4915-04
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CFTC Fines Singapore Company for Executing Illegal Wash Trades on U.S. Markets, 4914-04
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CFTC AND STATE OF MARYLAND CHARGE MARYLAND RESIDENT ANDREW SILBERSTEIN WITH STEALING INVESTOR FUNDS IN COMMODITY FUTURES SCAM; Federal Court Enters Order Freezing Silberstein's Assets, 4912-04
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS CALIFORNIAN OSCAR GOLDMAN TO PAY $275,500 IN SANCTIONS IN SETTLING COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION CHARGES; Defendant Goldman Had Been Charged With Fraudulent Sales Solicitations, 4911-04
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CFTC CHARGES EQUITY FINANCIAL GROUP LLC, A NEW JERSEY COMPANY, AND OTHERS WITH FRAUDULENTLY SOLICITING MORE THAN $5.7 MILLION FROM INVESTORS IN THE SHASTA CAPITAL ASSOCIATES, LLC HEDGE FUND; Shasta Recently Hailed as "Hedge Fund of the Week," , 4908-04
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CFTC Revokes Registration of Illinois Floor Broker, Donald R. Van Patten, 4907-04
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PORTLAND MAN JAILED BY FEDERAL COURT FOR CONTEMPT FOR VIOLATION OF ORDER PREVENTING DISSIPATION OF CUSTOMER FUNDS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) FRAUD CASE, 4906-04
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ST. LOUIS RESIDENT KENNETH LEE AND HIS COMPANY ORDERED TO PAY MORE THAN $567,000 TO DEFRAUDED COMMODITY CUSTOMERS; Court Permanently Bans Defendants From Trading, 4905-04
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CFTC BRINGS FRAUD ACTION AGAINST TENNESSEE FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) FIRM AND CERTAIN EMPLOYEES; FxTrade Financial, LLC, Jeffrey A. Mischler, Lee N. Romano II, and Mary Jo Sibbitt Are Charged with Fraud when Soliciting Customers, 4904-04
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FEDERAL COURT REFUSES TO DISMISS NATURAL GAS MANIPULATION CASE AGAINST FORMER ENRON VICE PRESIDENT; CFTC Previously Charged Hunter Shively With Manipulating Prices in Natural Gas Market, 4899-04
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FEDERAL COURT ENTERS INTERIM ORDER BARRING LOS ANGELES-BASED FIRM, PROFIT PARTNERS, INC., FROM DEFRAUDING CUSTOMERS IN SELLING COMMODITY FUTUERS AND OPTIONS TRADING SYSTEMS; CFTC Complaint Charges Profit Partners with Fraud, 4898-04
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CFTC ANNOUNCES NOTICE OF INTENT TO REVOKE REGISTRATION OF FX FIRST, INC., OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA; Notice Alleges FX First Is Subject to Statutory Disqualification of its Registration with the CFTC, 4897-04
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS LOS ANGELES FOREIGN CURRENCY FIRM AND ITS PRESIDENT TO REPAY CUSTOMERS MORE THAN $1 MILLION IN COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION FRAUD ACTION; Court Also Orders Payment of Over $5 Million in Civil Penalties, 4895-04
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CFTC CHARGES FLORIDA FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) OPTIONS FIRM WITH DEFRAUDING CUSTOMERS; Gibraltar Monetary Corporation, Inc. and Employees Jayson Kline, Charles Fremer, Thomas Clancy, and Edward Johnson Allegedly Lied When Pitching Foreign Currency Options to Customers; Forex Capital Markets, LLC Also Charged, 4892-04
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CFTC SETTLES TRADING FRAUD CASE WITH INDIVIDUALS FOUND TO HAVE DEFRAUDED THE FORMER COASTAL CORPORATION, 4891-04
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS TWO FLORIDA MEN TO REPAY $300,000 EACH TO CUSTOMERS THEY DEFRAUDED IN A FOREIGN CURRENCY SCAM; Defendants to Repay $300,000 to Defrauded Customers, Among Other Sanctions, 4887-04
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS OHIO RESIDENT KEITH ELSESSER TO REPAY CUSTOMERS IN FRAUDULENT FOREIGN CURRENCY OPTIONS SCHEME; Elsesser Also Required to Pay Civil Penalty of $120,000, 4885-04
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CFTC IMPOSES A TOTAL OF $50 MILLION IN CIVIL PENALTIES ON SIX ENERGY TRADING FIRMS; Subsidiaries of Energy Companies Aquila, Inc. and Xcel Energy Inc. Pay $26.5 Million and $16 Million, Respectively, To Settle Charges of False Reporting and Attempted Manipulation; Also Settling Charges Of False Reporting Are Entergy Koch Trading, L.P., Oneok, Inc. and Its Trading Subsidiary and Calpine Energy Services, L.P., 4883-04
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CFTC FINES FLOOR BROKER FOR UNLAWFULLY TRADING CRUDE OIL FUTURES CONTRACTS; Robert Benjamin Harmon, Jr. Settles Charges that He Engaged in Wash Sales, Reported Non-Bona Fide Prices, and Executed Non-competitive Trades, 4881-04
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CFTC FINDS THAT NORMAN EISLER MANIPULATED SETTLEMENT PRICES; Norman Eisler and First West Trading, Inc. to Pay Civil Penalty of $4.9 Million, 4880-04
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TEXAS MAN CHARGED WITH FOREIGN CURRENCY FRAUD; CFTC Charges Ross Erskine with Fraudulently Soliciting Foreign Currency Futures Customers by Making Misleading Profit Claims, 4879-04
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