November 30, 2015

Eric A. Bloom, formerly of Northbrook, Illinois, has been banned from trading commodity interests on charges that he violated Section 4d(b) of the Commodity Exchange Act in the handling of $562 million in commodity customer segregated funds that had been managed by Sentinel Management Group, Inc.; in a parallel criminal action, Bloom was sentenced to 14 years in prison. CFTC

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