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… Today, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) instituted a … Reichenthal and Levine engaged in a scheme to defraud bitcoin investors through off-exchange bitcoin transactions. Reichenthal, an attorney licensed in …
… 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 …
… and successfully convinced investors to send their bitcoin and other funds to Mosaic under the guise that Mosaic would enter into futures, swaps, and leveraged spot transactions in … N. Johnson: Increase Investor Protection by Stopping Bitcoin Investment Fund Fraud …
… 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 …
… Prohibitions on Wash Trading and Prearranged Trading in Bitcoin Swap Washington, D.C. – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an Order filing and … contract based on the relative value of the U.S. Dollar and Bitcoin, a virtual currency (the Bitcoin Swap). On October …
… Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order … at least four people (pool participants) to trade leveraged bitcoin in a commodity pool, lost almost all funds trading, … “While digital-asset cases are often complex, this bitcoin case is a straight-up fraud: simple and old as time. …