On Thursday the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that on July 30, 2014, it filed charges in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against Edwin Vasquez and his company Vasquez Global Investments LLC for misappropriation, solicitation fraud, and issuing false statements concerning an unregistered commodity trading pool.
According to the CFTC complaint, starting in 2011, Vasquez—acting individually and through his company—“fraudulently solicited and accepted at least $583,491 from at least 19 individuals” to trade commodity futures contracts through participation in a commodity pool known as the VGI pool.
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