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CFTC v TODD JAMES SNIVELY Click to find out why . . .



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CaseNo: CVTJS126407, CourtName: MISC 2, Plaintiff: CFTC, State: MI Michigan, UniqueCaseRef: LCD>CVTJS126407, Act, Futurewise, Commodity, Investors, Commission, Violations, Cci, Trading, Regulations, Account, Funds, Representatives, Interstate Commerce, Pursuant, Transaction, Delivery, Contracts, Thereof, Books, Agent, Internet, Todd James, Controlling, Permitted Investors, Practices, Relevant Time, Trading Platform, Trading Group, Requiring, Willful, Consultants Internatiomtl, Wherever, Disposing, Assets, Futurewise Trading Group, Electronically Stored Data, Complaint, Statutory, Consent , ContentID: 120252674

Case Documents
1   RESTRAINING ORDER
[ see first page and extracted highlights below  ] ItemID: 127739
4 pages
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2 2001-06 COMPLAINT
[ see first page and extracted highlights below  ] ItemID: 127738
13 pages
PDF
Total Documents: 2 documents , 17 pages
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1 . RESTRAINING ORDER

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
TODD JAMES
COURT
COMMODITY
TRADING GROUP
CONSULTANTS INTERNATIOMTL
COMMISSION
WHEREVER
DISPOSING
FUNDS
ASSETS
FUTUREWISE TRADING GROUP
ELECTRONICALLY STORED DATA
COMPLAINT
STATUTORY
CONSENT
SATISFACTION
HEREBY
INSOFAR
ACTING
AGENTS
EMPLOYEES
WITHDRAWING
TRANSFERRING
REMOVING
CONCEALING
INVESTOZR
BOOKS
BUSINESS
SECURITIES
        FEE  08  2082     15:  05  FR  COM~IODITY  FlJTlJRES         312  353  4502           TO 
      FEE  08  2002  15:48       FR COflERICR 1  DETROIT CT313  222  4567  TP  913123534502        
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                                      IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  DISTRTCT  COURT
                                                          FOR  THE
                                          EASTERN  DISTRICT  OF MICHIGAN


        COMMODITY           FUTURES  TRADING                     CIVIL  ACTION  NO.
        COMMISSION,

                                         Pkdiff~

                               v.

       TODD  JAMES  SMVELY,

        COMMODITY           CONSULTANTS
       INTERlVATIONAJ+                7NC.     AND
       FU'lkIWVISE          TIbiDl-NG  GROUP,                               ORDER
       INC.                                                                                  
                                         Defendants.


                                               STATUTORY  RESTRATNTNG
                                                     ORDER  BY  CONSENT
                                                                                                   
                The  Court  having read the  Complaint  for  Lnjuncrivc and Other Eq$&k  @lief,  the
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                   
        Plaintiffs  Motion  for a Statutory Restraining Order ("SRO"),  the Brief  in Q&fi         
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                   
       Motion  for  a  SRO, the  Declarations of  Donald Nash and Soy McConnacc,and  6k&mo&s
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                   
       thereto,  and  all  other  papers filed  herein  by  111e Plaintiff,  Commodit$?~tirq       
                                                                                                   
       Commission  (`Commission"),  it appearing that the Court has jurisdiction  over I?$ su&ct 

       and that Section 6c of the Commodity  Exchange Act,  as amended ("Act"),  7 U.S.C.  6 13a-1

       (2001), permits this Court to grant a statutory rcseraining order by consent; it further

       the satisfaction oi' the Court that there is good cause to  believe that defendants Todd

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  • Commission, it appearing that the Court has jurisdiction over I?$ su&ct matfer
  • permits this Court to grant a statutory rcseraining order by consent;
  • the satisfaction oi' the Court that there is good cause to believe that defendants Todd James
  • IT 1s HEREBY ORDERED:
  • That Todd James Snfvely, Commodity Consultants International, Inc., NtureWise
  • Trading Group, Inc., and all persons insofar as they are acting in the cqxity of agents,
  • employees, successors, assigns or attorneys of the Defendants and all persons insofar as they
  • Dissipating, withdrawing, transferring, removing, concealing or disposing of cash,
  • cashids checks, funds, assets or other property of, or within the custody, control
  • or possession of the defendants, including fulds or property of investozr,
  • wherever located, whether held in the name of Todd Yamcs Snively, Commodity
  • FutureWise Trading Group, Inc., whether held in the name of Todd James Snivcly, Commodity
  • Consultants Internatiomtl, Inc., PutureWisc Trading Group, Inc., or othensise, including funds
  • any such f&s, securities, property, or other assets until fkther or&r of the Court.
  • allowed to immedialely inspect tie books, records and other electronically stored data, tape
  • of Defendants' business operations, wherever they are sjtuatcd and whether they are in the
  • summons and complaint, and all other papers in this cause.

  • 2 . COMPLAINT

    EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
    FUTUREWISE
    DEFENDANTS
    INVESTORS
    COMMODITY
    VIOLATIONS
    CCI
    COMMISSION
    TRADING
    REGULATIONS
    ACCOUNT
    REPRESENTATIVES
    FUNDS
    INTERSTATE COMMERCE
    PURSUANT
    TRANSACTION
    DELIVERY
    CONTRACTS
    THEREOF
    AGENT
    INTERNET
    CONTROLLING
    COURT
    PERMITTED INVESTORS
    BOOKS
    PRACTICES
    RELEVANT TIME
    TRADING PLATFORM
    REQUIRING
    WILLFUL
    
                              IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                                                   FOR THE
                                    EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
    
                                                            )
    COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING                               ) CIVIL ACTION NO.  02-40041
    COMMISSION,                                             )
                                                            )
                                   Plaintiff,               )
                                                            )
                       v.                                   )
                                                            )
    TODD JAMES SNIVELY,                                     )
    COMMODITY CONSULTANTS                                   )
    INTERNATIONAL, INC.,                                    )
                                                            )
         a Michigan corporation, and                        )
                                                            )
    FUTUREWISE TRADING GROUP, INC.,                         )
                                                            )
         a Michigan corporation,                            )
                                                            )
                                   Defendants.              )
                                                            )
    
          COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF AND
            FOR CIVIL PENALTIES UNDER THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT
    
                                                      I.
    
                                                   SUMMARY
    
           1.      Since at least June 2001 and continuing through the present (the "relevant time"),
    
    Todd J. Snively ("Snively"), individually and as an agent for Commodity Consultants
    
    International, Inc. ("CCI") and FutureWise Trading Group, Inc. ("FutureWise") (collectively the
    
    "Defendants"), engaged in an internet-based commodity futures trading scheme in which the
    
    Defendants solicited and received in excess of $2.9 million from at least 60 participants
    
    ("investors").  The Defendants purportedly operated an internet web-based trading platform and
    
    permitted investors to trade for their own accounts on that platform.  The Defendants also
    
    
    purportedly permitted investors to place orders with FutureWise and CCI that FutureWise and
    
    
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  • IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
  • COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF AND FOR CIVIL PENALTIES UNDER THE
  • individually and as an agent for Commodity Consultants
  • International, Inc. and FutureWise Trading Group, Inc. (collectively the
  • Defendants solicited and received in excess of $2.9 million from at least 60 participants
  • The Defendants purportedly operated an internet web-based trading platform and
  • permitted investors to trade for their own accounts on that platform.
  • CCI represented they would cause to be executed for the investors' accounts.
  • Using means of interstate commerce, the Defendants issued false statements to
  • concealing the facts that investor funds were not actually being traded as represented.
  • On February 7, 2002, representatives of the Commodity Futures Trading
  • Commission attempted to review the books and records of CCI and
  • , and Commission Regulations promulgated thereunder, 17 C.F.R. §§ 1 et seq.
  • Commission brings this action to enjoin the unlawful acts and practices of Defendants Snively,
  • contracts and establishes a comprehensive system for regulating the purchase and sale of such
  • This Court has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to Section 6c of the Act,
  • purpose of investing in commodity futures using an internet web-based trading platform
  • a controlling person and agent of CCI and FutureWise.
  • During the relevant time, the Defendants received at least $2.9 million from at
  • The Defendants permitted investors to access their account statements over the
  • demanded immediate inspection of the books and records of defendants CCI and FutureWise.
  • VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 4bAND OF THE ACT:
  • other persons where such contracts for future delivery were or may have been used for
  • or determining the price basis of any transaction in interstate commerce
  • commerce for the fulfillment thereof.
  • Each material misrepresentation or omission, and each willful deception made
  • and engaging in any activity requiring such
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