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CFTC Charges Nicholas Trimble and His Two Companies with Solicitation Fraud and Misappropriating Customer Funds
Federal court enters order freezing defendants’ assets Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil injunctive complaint charging defendants Nicholas Trimble and his companies, Capstone FX Quantitative Analysis, Inc. (Capstone) and Beekeepers Fund Capital Management, LLC (Beekeepers), all of Denver, Colo., with fraudulently soliciting at least $1.1 million from customers to trade foreign currency (forex) through pooled and managed trading accounts using a proprietary forex trading system. On the same day the complaint was filed, November 7, 2011, Judge Philip A. Brimmer of ... (full story)