{"id":29183,"date":"2012-05-25T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29183"},"modified":"2012-05-25T06:15:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:15:17","slug":"cftc-sues-ex-chicago-broker-alleging-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/cftc-sues-ex-chicago-broker-alleging-ponzi-scheme.html","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Sues Ex-Chicago Broker, Alleging Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued a former Chicago floor broker, claiming he ran a four-year Ponzi scheme and fraudulently solicited at least $7.8 million to trade commodity futures contracts. In a civil lawsuit, the CFTC said Bradley Schiller ran the Ponzi scheme promised investors annual returns of 13 percent or higher. But he never delivered, the CFTC charged in its suit.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission charged his scam fueled &#8220;a life of luxury&#8221; including a pricey high-rise condominium and expensive automobiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&amp;story=dail20714.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued a former Chicago floor broker, claiming he ran a four-year Ponzi scheme and fraudulently solicited at least $7.8 million to trade commodity futures contracts. In a civil lawsuit, the CFTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29185,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29183\/revisions\/29185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}