Federal Court Freezes Assets of Minnesota Residents Trevor Cook and Patrick Kiley and their Oxford and Universal Companies, Charged by the CFTC with Defrauding Investors of Tens of Millions of Dollars in Foreign Currency Scheme Other enforcement

Key facts

Release number

5756-09

Release date

2009-11-25

Type

Other enforcement

Primary source

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/5756-09

About CFTC enforcement

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.