November 30, 2016

Alvin Guy Wilkinson and his entities Chicago Index Partners, L.P. and Wilkinson Financial Opportunity Fund, L.P. were ordered to pay $21.8 million in a default judgment ordered by Judge Virginia Kendall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Wilkinson and his entities ran a commodity pool and were accused of misappropriating pool funds, fraudulently soliciting pool participants, issuing false statements to customers, and providing false financial information the National Futures Association. The judgment included $12,382,207.20 in civil monetary penalties, $4,127,402.40 in disgorgement, and $5,389,381 in restitution. CFTC

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