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CFTC Charges Ex-CBOE Member With $7m Commodity Pool Fraud

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:01 pm
by kreslik.news

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the ‎filing of a civil enforcement complaint against a former member of the Chicago ‎Board Options Exchange (CBOE), charging him with operating a multi-million dollar ‎fraudulent scheme in addition to misleading NFA investigations, according to a ‎CFTC statement.‎

Specifically, the U.S. derivatives regulator alleged in its complaint, filed ‎on June 28, 2016, that from July 1999 to the present, Alvin Guy Wilkinson, of San ‎Juan, Puerto Rico, and his limited partnerships Chicago Index Partners, L.P. ‎‎(CIP) and Wilkinson Financial Opportunity Fund, L.P. (WFOF), both located in ‎Sharon, Connecticut, engaged in a fraudulent ... (read more)