ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER CFTC Recently Awards $8 Million To Whistleblower Cases Start With An Anonymous Tip From Whistleblower Fraud In Commodities and Futures Trading The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) oversees trading in derivatives, commodities, options, futures, swaps, and currencies.  See Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER CFTC Recently Awards $3 Million To Whistleblower Cases Start With An Anonymous Tip From Whistleblower Fraud In Commodities and Futures Trading The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) oversees trading in derivatives, commodities, options, futures, swaps, and currencies.  See Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER CFTC Charges Individual And Firm With Precious Metals Fraud Gold And Silver Scams Often Target Older Investors Financial Elder Abuse And Whistleblower Cases Precious metal dealers entice investors by promising to fulfill orders for silver or gold and actually deliver the metals to the investors.  Often the promised […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Rewards for Blowing Whistle On Commodities Trading Fraud Commodity Futures Trading Commission Issues Whistleblower Alert On Spoofing Spoofing And Other Commodities Trading Fraud The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) saw a 126% increase in whistleblower tips during 2020. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Whistleblower Tips Up 126% 2020 CFTC Awards Double 2019 Number Whistleblower Awards Now Total Over $120 Million According to a report released on November 2, 2020, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) saw a 126% increase in whistleblower tips during 2020. For the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Oversees Options Trading CFTC Finds Broker Defrauded 25,000 Customers  Fines Broker Over $13.8 Million The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on October 13, 2020 rdered a broker to pay over $13.8 million[1] in restitution, disgorged profits and civil penalties as the result of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Issues Massive Order Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Trades In Precious Metals And Futures Insiders Rewarded For Assisting Enforcement On September 29, 2020, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a massive $920 million settlement of a case[1] involving hundreds of thousands of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Extend Enforcement Actions Fraudulent Trading Schemes May Violate Bank Secrecy Laws  Insiders Rewarded For Assistance And Information The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) polices the commodities and futures markets and have extended their policing power to enforcing bank secrecy laws that commodities brokers […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Commission Targets Fraudulent Trading Schemes  Insider Rewarded $9 Million For Information Commodities and futures trading constitute an enormous financial marketplace and wherever hundreds of billions of dollars trade hands every year, there’s bound to be fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Commission Targets Fraudulent Trading Schemes Insider Rewarded $9 Million For Information Commodities and futures trading constitute an enormous financial marketplace and wherever hundreds of billions of dollars trade hands every year, there’s bound to be fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission […]