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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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FLORIDA FEDERAL COURT ORDERS HUSBAND AND WIFE THOMAS CHILCOTT AND LEONA WESTBROOK TO REPAY MORE THAN $2.1 MILLION TO CUSTOMERS INJURED IN COMMODITY FRAUD SCHEME; Court Also Orders Couple and Another Defendant To Pay $2.42 Million in Civil Penalties, 4878-04
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New Jersey Foreign Currency Futures Firm Charged with Defauding Commodities Customers; Clearview Capital Management, Inc. and Fort Lee Resident James I. Weiss Allegedly Misrepresented Their Trading Profitability and Experience, and Charged Undisclosed Fees, 4877-04
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CFTC Suspends Floor Brokers for Unlawfully Trading Coffee Futures Contracts, 4874-04
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CFTC CHARGES CALIFORNIA MAN AND HIS FIRM, UR-LINK, WITH FRAUD IN CONNECTION WITH FOREIGN CURRENCY SCHEME, 4873-03
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LOS ANGELES-AREA FOREIGN CURRENCY (FOREX) FIRM EMERALD WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS, INC., CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING MORE THAN 300 CUSTOMERS OF OVER $4.7 MILLION IN COMMODITY SCAM; CFTC Also Charges Jan Lu Hao and Jian Zhuang in Scheme to Defraud, 4871-03
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CFTC CHARGES CHICAGO BROKER KEITH W. KRYSINSKI WITH FRAUD ON COMMODITY FUTURES CUSTOMERS; CFTC Alleges Defendant Misappropriated Certain Customer Funds and Created a False Statement To Conceal the Fraud; Federal Court Issues Order Freezing Defendant's Assets, 4870-03
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