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… Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued two orders … Homestead, Florida, for perpetrating a multi-million dollar bitcoin fraud. The orders charge Levine and Reichenthal … inducing them to send over $5 million to Reichenthal to buy bitcoin from Levine. After receiving the investors’ funds, …
… 30, 2019 CFTC Charges Individual with Multi-Million Dollar Bitcoin Fraud Washington, DC — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today charged Jon Barry Thompson … to customers in connection with the purported purchase of bitcoin worth over $7 million. In a complaint filed in the …
… September 17, 2015 CFTC Orders Bitcoin Options Trading Platform Operator and its CEO to Cease Illegally Offering Bitcoin Options and to Cease Operating a Facility for … Commodity Exchange Act Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an Order filing and …
… December 1, 2017 CFTC Statement on Self-Certification of Bitcoin Products by CME, CFE and Cantor Exchange Washington, … the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) self-certified new contracts for bitcoin futures products, and the Cantor Exchange (Cantor) …
… Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed a federal civil … New York with fraud for operating Ponzi schemes involving bitcoin, for fraudulently soliciting more than $44 million … solicited individuals of more than $23 million of bitcoin. The complaint also alleges that Golden, Patel, …
… Company and its Principal in $147 Million Fraudulent Bitcoin Trading Scheme Washington, DC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a … Control-Finance Limited (Control-Finance), a purported Bitcoin trading and investment company, and its principal, …
… Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that it filed a … for purported trading in foreign currency (forex) and Bitcoin. The CFTC seeks restitution, disgorgement, civil … and misleading representations regarding trading forex and Bitcoin. During the relevant period, Uti was the …
… Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a civil enforcement action … a global foreign currency commodity pool that only accepted Bitcoin to purchase a participation in the pool, with a … This action is the largest fraudulent scheme involving Bitcoin charged in any CFTC case. In its continuing …
… Washington, D.C . – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed a civil enforcement … unlawful retail commodity transactions in ether, litecoin, bitcoin, gold, and silver. The defendant violated the CEA by … or accepted money, securities, and property in the form of bitcoin and other assets in exchange for margin trades or …
… Trading Platform and Its CEO to Pay $990,000 for Illegal Bitcoin-Related Transactions with U.S. Customers Washington, DC — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that a … retail commodity transactions that were margined in bitcoin, failing to register as a futures commission …