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在對被告的訴訟進(jìn)程中,CFTC 要求其對受騙者進(jìn)行賠償,處以民事罰款、
禁止交易,以及永久禁止其進(jìn)一步違反《美國商品交易法》(CEA)和 CFTC 聯(lián)
邦法規的行為。
案件背景
Agridime 經(jīng)營(yíng)一家在線(xiàn)平臺,聲稱(chēng)允許客戶(hù)購買(mǎi)和銷(xiāo)售牛,并向受害者保證
每年至少獲得 15%至 20%的固定利率回報。正如宣傳的那樣,Agridime 的計劃
為客戶(hù)提供了無(wú)需對牛進(jìn)行日常養護工作即可對其進(jìn)行購買(mǎi)和銷(xiāo)售的機會(huì ),正如
Agridime 在招攬資料中所述,買(mǎi)方將“不必做所有工作就可以養牛賺錢(qián)”。
據稱(chēng),Agridime 養牛計劃中,顧客以每頭 2,000 美元的價(jià)格購買(mǎi)牛,而
Agridime 將負責通過(guò)與其合作的農民照料和飼養牛,直到其成熟并被銷(xiāo)售。
訴狀稱(chēng),Agridime 聲稱(chēng)客戶(hù)的資金將僅用于購買(mǎi)、飼養和喂養其購買(mǎi)的牛。
但是,由于 Agridime 沒(méi)有購買(mǎi)足夠數量的牛來(lái)履行其在牲畜合同下的義務(wù),其
不得不使用最近客戶(hù)的資金來(lái)支付先前客戶(hù)的保證利潤。此外,訴狀進(jìn)一步稱(chēng),
客戶(hù)的資金還被用于支付 Agridime 成員(包括 Link、他的妻子和 Wood)約 1,100
萬(wàn)美元的未披露傭金。
CFTC Charges Agridime and Its Co-Founders with a Fraudulent Cattle Scheme
(2024/5/14)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it filed a civil
enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
against Agridime LLC, a Texas corporation, and its co-founders, Joshua Link of
Gilbert, Arizona and Jed Wood of Ft. Worth, Texas.
The complaint alleges the defendants engaged in a scheme to defraud thousands
of customers in at least 14 states by soliciting, accepting, and using customers’ funds
to pay undisclosed commissions and used later customers' funds to pay profits to
earlier customers, in the manner of a Ponzi scheme, rather than for the purposes
Agridime represented those funds would be used. Agridime claimed the funds would
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