CFTC Charges Ex-CBOE Member With $7m Commodity Pool Fraud
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:01 pm
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)