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CFTC charges company and individual for Illegal Off-Exchange Precious Metals Transactions
September 21st, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil injunctive enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Florida-based Defendants KB Concepts Group, LLC d/b/a Apex Asset Advisors, LLC (Apex) and Kelvin Burgos, Apex’s president, ...
My Global Leverage and its owner fined for Illegal and Off-Exchange Precious Metals Transactions
September 2nd, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Andrew P. Gordon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada entered an Order of default judgment (Order) against My Global Leverage, LLC (MGL), which did business in Las ...
CFTC charges Forex broker FXCM with Undercapitalization
August 19th, 2016
The CFTC Complaint, filed on August 18, 2016, alleges that FXCM, as an RFED in the business of offering or engaging in retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions, was required to maintain adjusted net capital of approximately $25 million on ...
CFTC charges TradeMasters and its owner for fraud
August 18th, 2016
CFTC Alleges Schacke and his Company TradeMasters Fraudulently Solicited at Least $155,626 from at Least 36 Investors Federal Court Issues Restraining Order Protecting Defendants’ Books and Records and Granting the CFTC Access to Such Records The U.S. Commodity Futures ...
SEC announced fraud charges against Investment Adviser for stealing money from investors
August 12th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a San Francisco man and his investment advisory firm accused of pretending to manage millions of dollars in assets and then stealing money from the first client who invested ...
Disbarred lawyer and his law firm have been ordered to pay penalty for a Money Pass Scheme
August 4th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Milton I. Shadur of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered an Order of Default Final Judgment (Order) against John D. Briner, a disbarred Canadian ...
CFTC: Two Israeli web based binary options firms ordered to pay more than $4.5 Million
July 29th, 2016
Federal Court Orders Israeli Web-based Firms, Vault Options, Ltd. and Global Trader 365, to Pay More than $4.5 Million for Unlawful Off-Exchange Binary Options Trading, Fraud, and Registration Violations CFTC Obtains Default Judgment and Permanent Trading Ban against the ...
VW Will Spend $14.7 Billion to Settle emissions scandal;the largest settlement ever paid by an automaker
July 7th, 2016
Volkswagen will spend $10 billion on affected car buybacks, $4.7 billion to “mitigate pollution” in the TDI emissions settlement. The estimated cost of Volkswagen’s U.S. diesel emissions cheating just rose by half—to nearly $15 billion, the largest settlement ever paid by ...
CFTC announced that individual and his companies ordered to pay nearly $17.5 Million for operating a Ponzi Scheme
July 6th, 2016
Garcia Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison and a Forfeiture of over $3 Million in a Parallel Criminal Case Federal Court Orders Nearly $17.5 Million in Sanctions against Naples, Florida Resident Dorian Garcia and his Companies for Solicitation Fraud, ...
UK-Based Trader charged for hacked into the online brokerage accounts of numerous investors
June 23rd, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a United Kingdom resident charged with intruding into the online brokerage accounts of U.S. investors to make unauthorized stock trades ...
