Federal Court Orders Colorado Man Nicholas Trimble and His Two Companies, Capstone FX Quantitative Analysis, Inc. and Beekeepers Fund Capital Management, LLC, to Pay More than $3.5 Million in Foreign Currency Fraud Action Fraud
Key facts
- Release number
- 6534-13
- Release date
- 2013-03-15
- Type
- Fraud
- Primary source
- https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/6534-13
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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.