CFTC Charges Illinois Resident Donald A. Newell and his Company, Quiddity, LLC, with Running a Fraudulent Allocation Scheme, Making Material False Statements to the CFTC, and Recordkeeping Violations Fraud
Key facts
- Release number
- 6333-12
- Release date
- 2012-08-24
- Type
- Fraud
- Primary source
- https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/6333-12
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.