Melissa C. Rushton to ordered to pay $50,000 by court order. This is a new one..... The CFTC is now going after not just those who perpetrate fraud, but also their spouses, if it can show that the spouses knew of the fraud. The CFTC announced that it obtained a federal court order requiring Melissa C.…
Read moreCFTC says defendants lured clients to trade forex, but used funds for personal use. The CFTC has obtained a court order ordering Kevin Harris, Keelan Harris, Complete Developments, LLC (CDL), and Investment International Inc. (aka I3), all of Warren, Ohio, along with another defendant, Karen Starr of Barrie, Ontario, Canada, “collectively to pay restitution” of over $23 million. We've seen…
Read moreThis is not David Prescott's, aka David Weeks, first run-in with securities regulators. The CFTC has announced that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin issued an Order freezing the assets of David Prescott and his business Cambridge Currency Partners. A hearing on the matter is set to take place next week. The order…
Read moreCFTC orders those named to pay $1.8M, and imposes permanent trading ban. The CFTC has ordered Timothy Bailey of Monroe, North Carolina and Michael Hudspeth of Statesville, North Carolina along with their company, PMC Strategy, LLC (PMC), to pay over $1.8 million for solicitation fraud and misappropriation in connection with an FX ponzi scheme that…
Read moreCFTC fines Alcocer and InovaTrade more than $38 million and permanently bans them. The CFTC has received a federal court order requiring Michael Alcocer and his company InovaTrade to pay a fine of more than $38 million. Alcocer (as well as his company) was also permanently banned from trading or registration with the CFTC. Not much is…
Read moreAmounts to a small slap on the wrist for Interactive Brokers, but shows the CFTC is cracking down on safety-of-client-fund issues. The CFTC has assessed a $225,000 fine against Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq:IBKR), a leading U.S.-based online brokerage which also is the #5 retail FX brokerage in the U.S. The CFTC cited Interactive Brokers for: failing to…
Read moreCFTC orders those named to pay $750,000, and imposes permanent trading and registration bans. The CFTC has ordered Barry Sendach of Boca Raton, FL and Joshua Kershner of Boynton Beach, FL, and their Boca Raton-based company Forex Global Solutions to pay a $750,000 fine for fraudulently soliciting customers to trade FX, and for violating CFTC registration requirements.…
Read moreClaimed its software had shown positive returns on every trade it ever made. Did people actually believe that??? The CFTC has fined California-based Victor Yu his company VFRS a total of $3.2 million in a foreign currency fraud action. The order finds that Yu and VFRS misrepresented that they had developed trading software that made forex…
Read moreCFTC fines MXBK Group and its MBFX subsidiary for defrauding U.S. Forex customers. The CFTC has handed out one of its largest ever fines -- a $57 million whopper -- to Mexico-based MXBK Group and its FX brokerage subsidiary MBFX. The order found that MXBK and MBFX accepted at least $28 million from more than…
Read moreCFTC sets $3.5 million in fines, Trimble used client money to gamble in Vegas. The CFTC has fined Colorado-based Nicholas Trimble and his two companies Capstone FX Quantitative Analysis Inc. and Beekeepers Fund Capital Management LLC a total of $3.5 million in a foreign currency fraud action. The order also permanently bans Trimble from engaging in any…
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