Western Virginia Man Found Guilty of 37 Counts Related to Defrauding Commodity Pool Investors out of Millions Commodity pool fraud

CFTC release 5567-08 · 2008-10-25 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number
5567-08
Release date
2008-10-25
Type
Commodity pool fraud
Primary source
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/5567-08

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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.