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CaseNo: CVMFI109547, CourtName: MISC 2, Plaintiff: CFTC, State: FL Florida, UniqueCaseRef: LCD>CVMFI109547, Customers, Corporate Defendants, Commission, Foreign Currency, Act, Mad, Ctu, Regulation, Risk, Commodity, Contracts, Dippolito, Investment, Account, Funds, Futures, Trading, Profits, Cftc, Option Contracts, Fraudulent, Florida, Commodity Futures Trading, Preliminary Injunction, Restraining Order, Commodity Futures, Statutory Restraining Order, Misappropriate, Contract Market, Transaction, Mad/ctu Money Trail, Michael Dippolito, Transfer Binder, Corporate Defendants Fail, Account Documentation , ContentID: 120252668

Case Documents
1   ORDER
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29 pages
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2 2002-01 COMPLAINT
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13 pages
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Total Documents: 2 documents , 42 pages
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1 . ORDER

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
CORPORATE DEFENDANTS
COMMISSION
ACT
FOREIGN CURRENCY
REGULATION
MAD
CTU
INVESTMENT
ACCOUNT
RISK
FUTURES
TRADING
DIPPOLITO
COMMODITY
CFTC
OPTION CONTRACTS
FRAUDULENT
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
RESTRAINING ORDER
STATUTORY RESTRAINING ORDER
MAD/CTU MONEY TRAIL
TRANSFER BINDER
CORPORATE DEFENDANTS FAIL
ACCOUNT DOCUMENTATION
ACT AUTHORIZES
CONTRACT MARKET
CCH
REQUESTED RELIEF
TRANSACTION
                                            UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                                            SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA




      COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
      COMMISSION,                                                                 CIVIL ACTION NO.
                                          Plaintiff,                    CIV-HURLEY

                                v.


      MAD FINANCIAL, INC., AKA
      MEYERS, ARNOLD, AND
      DAVIDSON, FINANCIAL, INC.,
      CTU, INC., AKA
      COOPER, THOMAS, AND
      UNGAR, INC., AND
      MICHAEL A. DIPPOLITO,


         Defendants.




     MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF'S
EX PARTE MOTION FOR STATUTORY RESTRAINING ORDER AND MOTION FOR
                 PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF



                                                         FILED UNDER SEAL















SNIPPETS:
  • COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
  • MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF'S EX PARTE MOTION FOR STATUTORY
  • PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF
  • The Operation of MAD and CTU
  • The Fraudulent Sales Practices
  • The Corporate Defendants Fail to Adequately Advise Customers of Risks
  • Lack of Investment Information and Account Documentation
  • The MAD/CTU Money Trail Does Not Lead to Investment in Foreign Currency Options...
  • Section 6c of the Act Authorizes the Court to Grant the Requested Relief Ex Parte
  • The Evidence Meets the Standard for Entry of an Ex Parte Restraining Order
  • Commission Regulation
  • Section 4cof the Act and Commission Regulations 32.11 and 33.3
  • First Investors Group, [1996-1998 Transfer Binder] Comm.
  • CFTC v. Baragosh,
  • 13 CFTC v. Crown Colony Commodity Options, Ltd., 434 F. Supp.
  • L. Rep. (CCH) ¶ 21,013 at 23,970 (S.D.
  • Since at least April 2001 and up to at least January 2002, defendants MAD Financial,
  • sold foreign currency option contracts to customers nationwide from various locations in
  • Defendant Michael Dippolito is the director of the two corporate defendants.
  • The corporate defendants cold call customers and boast of tremendous, risk free, profits
  • contract market or a derivatives transaction execution facility designated by the Commodity
  • Section 6cof the Act authorizes the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to bring an action

  • 2 . COMPLAINT

    EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
    CORPORATE DEFENDANTS
    CONTRACTS
    FOREIGN CURRENCY
    MAD
    FUNDS
    CTU
    PROFITS
    COMMODITY
    DIPPOLITO
    RISK
    FLORIDA
    COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
    ACT
    COMMODITY FUTURES
    BUSINESS
    COMMISSION
    MISAPPROPRIATE
    INVESTMENT
    MICHAEL DIPPOLITO
    COMMISSION REGULATION
    BUSINESS LOCATION
    INTERRELATED CORPORATIONS
    CONTRACT MARKET
    TRANSACTION
    FALSE REPRESENTATIONS
    FRAUDULENT SALES PRACTICES
    PROMISING EXTRAORDINARY PROFITS
    EXTRAORDINARY PROFITS
    INCORPORATION
    
                                                 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                                                 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
    
    
    
    
           COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
           COMMISSION,                                                            CIVIL ACTION NO.
                                               Plaintiff,                              CIV-HURLEY
    
                                     v.
    
    
           MAD FINANCIAL, INC., AKA
           MEYERS, ARNOLD, AND
           DAVIDSON, FINANCIAL, INC.,
           CTU, INC., AKA                                                         FILED UNDER SEAL
           COOPER, THOMAS, AND
           UNGAR, INC., AND
           MICHAEL A. DIPPOLITO,
    
    
              Defendants.
    
    
    
    
                                       COMPLAINT FOR PERMANENT INJUNCTION
                                                 AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF
    
    
                                                              I.      SUMMARY
    
                       1.  Since at least April 2001 and as recently as January 2002, MAD Financial,
    
    Myers, Arnold, and Davidson Financial, Inc. ("MAD") and CTU Inc., a.k.a., Cooper, Thomas
    
    and Ungar, Inc. ("CTU") (collectively, the "corporate defendants") have fraudulently sold
    
    foreign currency option contracts to customers nationwide from various locations in Florida.
    
    Defendant Michael Dippolito ("Dippolito") is the director of both corporate defendants.
    
    Defendants MAD and CTU appear to be interrelated corporations that do not have a fixed
    
    business location.  The corporate defendants solicited and received more than $200,000 from
    
    customers by promising extraordinary profits while minimizing the risk of loss.  Despite the
    
    
    SNIPPETS:
  • foreign currency option contracts to customers nationwide from various locations in Florida.
  • Defendant Michael Dippolito is the director of both corporate defendants.
  • Defendants MAD and CTU appear to be interrelated corporations that do not have a fixed
  • business location.
  • customers by promising extraordinary profits while minimizing the risk of loss.
  • defendants will continue their fraudulent sales practices and continue to misappropriate
  • The corporate defendants cold call customers and boast of tremendous risk free profits
  • Instead, defendants spend customer funds on personal expenses such as clothing, jewelry,
  • limited to solicitations for further investment.
  • business location, but instead use cell phones, postal drop boxes, Kinko's fax machines, and
  • The corporate defendants have violated Section 4cof the Commodity Exchange
  • and by making false representations and material omissions concerning the risk of loss.
  • Section 4cof the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. § 6c("Section
  • 4c"), and Commission Regulation 32.9, 17 C.F.R. §32.9, by misappropriating
  • execution facility designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the
  • Florida corporation which designates its principal place of business as 630 North West 13th
  • designated by the Commission as a contract market or a derivatives transaction execution
  • incorporation as the registered office of CTU is a postal mail drop and serves as the mailing
  • The Corporate Defendants Misrepresent the Profitability Associated with Their Foreign
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