Federal Court Orders Nicholas A. Guarino, Jr. and Wall Street Underground, Inc. to Pay Over $2 Million to Defrauded Customers and to Pay a $7 Million Fine for Fraudulently Promoting Commodity Trading Systems Fraud

Key facts

Release number

5206-06

Release date

2006-07-26

Type

Fraud

Primary source

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/5206-06

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The CFTC charges market participants under the Commodity Exchange Act for spoofing, manipulation, fraud, wash trades, registration violations, and commodity-pool-operator misconduct. Most actions settle with restitution + civil money penalty + a bar/suspension. Crypto-asset cases have been a major share since 2019.