Search Results for: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
$1.2 Million penalty imposed in Forex trading scheme
October 20th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered an order of default judgment finding that Michael Salerno of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his ...
J.P. Morgan Securities admits to manipulative trading in U.S. Treasuries
September 30th, 2020
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, a broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for fraudulently engaging in manipulative trading of U.S. Treasury securities. J.P. Morgan Securities admitted the findings in the SEC’s ...
U.S. Financial Regulator wins Forex fraud trial; Defendants to pay more than $22.6 million
March 5th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that following a bench trial the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama entered a final judgment against defendants Husam Tayeh of Illinois and his companies, Dinar Corp., Inc. and ...
$125 million offering fraud; ongoing international trading program
September 20th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against three individuals and three entities in connection with an alleged fraudulent, ongoing international trading program ...
Alert! Individuals and entities charged with fraud in Binary Options trading scheme
September 3rd, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois charging five entities and four individuals with fraud relating to a global retail binary options enterprise ...
Principal of Binary Options trading firm to a pay $200,000 penalty
August 5th, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order filing and settling charges against Curtis Dalton of Middleton, Massachusetts, requiring him to pay $200,000 for offering illegal off-exchange retail commodity transactions to U.S. and overseas customers while failing to ...
Company charged in $147 million fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme
June 19th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a civil enforcement action (Complaint) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against defendants Control-Finance Limited (Control-Finance), a purported Bitcoin trading and investment company, ...
Binary Options trading firm and its principals charged with $4.8 million fraud scheme
May 9th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform about the filing of a civil enforcement action (Complaint) against William Thomas Caniff of Steubenville, Ohio, Arie Bos, of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, their company, Berkley Capital ...
Forex trading scheme charged in $75 Million fraud
April 25th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in federal court in Florida against Sarasota area defendants Oasis International Group, Limited (OIG), Oasis Management, LLC (OM), Satellite Holdings Company (Satellite), Michael J. DaCorta (DaCorta), Joseph S. ...
Trading Platform and its CEO fined for illegal Bitcoin related transactions
March 14th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that a federal court entered a Consent Order (Order) resolving a CFTC action against 1pool Ltd., located in the Marshall Islands, and its chief executive officer and owner, Patrick Brunner, for illegally ...
