July 2, 2018

The CFTC filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging Harris Bruce Landgarten of Old Brookville, New York, with defrauding participants in a commodity pool that he operated, the Tradeanedge Members Fund (TMF). The CFTC Complaint also charges Landgarten with providing his pool participants false account statements and with commingling pool funds with non-pool funds. Further, Landgarten was also charged with one count of obstructing the CFTC’s investigation related to Landgarten’s communications with one of his pool participants, who was a potential witness, while the CFTC’s investigation that resulted in the filing of this enforcement action was pending. CFTC

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