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United States CFTC Orders 3 Individuals (2 Brazil & 1 United States) to Pay $128 Million in Fines & Disgorgements (Give Up) for Futures & Options Fraud in EmpiresX Commodity Pool Scheme, Florida Corporation (EmpiresX) Pooled $41.6 Million from 12,500 Individuals Starting from 2020 & Retained $32 Million in Ill-Gotten Gains
5th February 2025 | Hong Kong
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered 3 individuals (2 Brazil & 1 United States) to pay $128 million in fines & disgorgements (give up) for futures & options fraud in EmpiresX commodity pool scheme. Florida Corporation (EmpiresX) had pooled $41.6 million from 12,500 individuals starting from 2020 & retained $32 million in ill-gotten gains. CFTC (3/2/25): “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued an order of default judgment against Brazilian nationals Emerson Pires and Flavio Goncalves, as well as Florida resident Joshua Nicholas, for fraud in connection with the EmpiresX commodity pool scheme and other violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations. The order requires Pires and Goncalves to pay, jointly and severally, more than $32 million in disgorgement and more than $96 million in civil monetary penalties. Nicholas is required to pay $289,000 in disgorgement and $867,000 in civil monetary penalties. The order also permanently enjoins the three individual defendants from engaging in conduct that violates the CEA, as charged, and permanently bans them from registering with the CFTC and from trading in any CFTC-regulated markets. The order resolves a CFTC complaint filed on June 30, 2022. [See CFTC Press Release No. 8551-22.] The court previously ordered commodity pool operator Empires Consulting Corp. to pay $64 million in monetary sanctions for the fraud scheme. [See CFTC Press Release No. 8879-24.]. Case Background – The order finds that beginning in approximately September 2020, the defendants fraudulently solicited individuals to trade commodity futures and options and other products through commodity interest pools under the name EmpiresX through the EmpiresX website and in online videos posted on social media platforms. During the relevant period, Pires and Goncalves, along with Empires Consulting, the Florida corporation that operated the EmpiresX commodity pools, accepted and pooled at least $41.6 million from over 12,500 individuals. The order finds Pires and Goncalves collectively retained over $32 million in ill-gotten gains. According to the order, Pires, Goncalves, and Nicholas knowingly made false claims regarding the use of pool participant funds, the size of the pools, and participant returns. The order further finds Nicholas showed pool participants an account page he identified as EmpiresX’s profitable account with a large, well-known electronic trading platform, when in fact EmpiresX had no account with that platform, and defendants created a fake website that mimicked the platform’s website to mislead participants into thinking that EmpiresX was actually trading their funds. By November 2021, the defendants stopped honoring participant withdrawal requests. The order finds Pires, Goncalves, and Nicholas acted as associated persons of a commodity pool operator, Empires Consulting Corporation, without registering as required, and committed fraud in connection with EmpiresX. It further finds Pires and Goncalves commingled pool funds in violation of the CEA. Parallel Criminal/Civil Enforcement Actions – On Sept. 8, 2022, the Department of Justice announced Nicholas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with his role in the EmpiresX scheme. [See DOJ press release here.]. On June 21, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained default judgment against Pires and Goncalves for their role in the EmpiresX scheme. SEC v. Empires Consulting Corp., No. 22-21995-Civ, ECF No. 48 (S.D. Fla. June 21, 2023).”
“ United States CFTC Orders 3 Individuals (2 Brazil & 1 United States) to Pay $128 Million in Fines & Disgorgements (Give Up) for Futures & Options Fraud in EmpiresX Commodity Pool Scheme, Florida Corporation (EmpiresX) Pooled $41.6 Million from 12,500 Individuals Starting from 2020 & Retained $32 Million in Ill-Gotten Gains “
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United States CFTC Orders 3 Individuals (2 Brazil & 1 United States) to Pay $128 Million in Fines & Disgorgements (Give Up) for Futures & Options Fraud in EmpiresX Commodity Pool Scheme, Florida Corporation (EmpiresX) Pooled $41.6 Million from 12,500 Individuals Starting from 2020 & Retained $32 Million in Ill-Gotten Gains
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