May 10, 2017
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked a New York federal court to put would-be rogue traders on notice by imposing a $390,000 fine and lifetime trading ban on a New York man who was accused of illegally operating a commodity pool and then convicted of threatening the officials investigating him.
November 13, 2015
A former trader convicted of threatening to murder regulators cannot toss a "fearful" judge from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's civil action against the man, with a New York federal court ruling Friday that none of his claims represented extrajudicial bias.
October 02, 2015
A former trader convicted of threatening to murder regulators is battling the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission over a bid for the recusal of a New York federal judge he says is afraid of him, with the CFTC recently saying the trader has already tried to get the judge tossed for frivolous reasons.
September 21, 2015
A former futures trader convicted of threatening to murder lawyers and regulators asked a New York federal judge on Monday to recuse himself from a civil suit brought by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, because the judge admitted to being afraid of him.
July 18, 2011
Former commodities trader Vincent P. McCrudden pled guilty Monday in New York to threatening to murder 47 attorneys and officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other federal agencies.
July 06, 2011
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday rebuffed a money manager's call to disqualify the federal judge overseeing the agency's lawsuit in New York over his trading activities as well as a criminal action over death threats the trader allegedly made to regulators.