# 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

> CFTC release 6534-13 · 2013-03-15 · **Fraud** · ENFORCEMENT

## Key facts

- **Release number:** 6534-13
- **Release date:** 2013-03-15
- **Type:** Fraud
- **Title:** 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
- **Primary source:** https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/6534-13

## What this is

CFTC enforcement actions cover derivatives + commodities + crypto fraud cases. The Commission charges market participants under the Commodity Exchange Act for spoofing, manipulation, fraud, wash trades, registration violations, and pool-operator misconduct. Most actions settle with restitution + civil money penalty + a bar/suspension.


## Citation

> US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, press release 6534-13, "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", 2013-03-15. Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cftc-action/6534-13.

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