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Federal Tipoffs Involving Arizona Newsletter for Thursday August 22, 2024 ( 3 items )  

CFTC Files Actions to Revoke Registrations of Introducing Broker, Commodity Pool Operator for Violating Commodity Exchange Act Antifraud Provisions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it commenced actions to revoke the registrations of Purvesh Mankad, and his affiliated entities CTAX Partners, LLC and CTAX Series, LLC. The CFTC's actions are based on the injunctions entered and findings made by the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in CFTC v. Mankad. [Case No. CV-21-01719-PHX-DJH.] The cour  more

CFTC Files Actions to Revoke Registrations of Introducing Broker, Commodity Pool Operator, and Associated Person for Violating CEA Antifraud Provisions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it commenced actions to revoke the registrations of , and his affiliated entities and . The CFTC's actions are based on the injunctions entered and findings made by the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in CFTC v. Mankad. [Case No. CV-21-01719-PHX-DJH.] The court found that each violated antifraud provisions of the  more

Texas U.S. Attorney: 92K Rounds of Ammo Found During Bridge of the Americas Bus Inspection, Drivers Arrested on Smuggling of Goods Charges
EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: Two Mexican national bus drivers were arrested Saturday in El Paso on criminal charges related to their alleged smuggling of firearm ammunition. According to court documents, Lucio Enriquez Garcia, was the driver of a charter bus bearing a Mexico license plate when he approached the Bridge of the Americas Port of Entry. Garcia told the Customs and Bor  more