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CFTC charges Calif. company with commodity pool fraud

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September 28, 2010 • Reprints

Washington, DC — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it obtained an emergency federal court order freezing the assets of defendants People’s Alternative, Inc. of Los Angeles, Calif. and its principals, Jaime Gallardo of Pasadena, Calif., and Karl Ochoa and Maria Iracheta, both of Los Angeles. The court’s order also prohibits the destruction of books and records and grants the CFTC immediate access to such documents.

Defendants charged with fraudulently soliciting at least $1.2 million dollars from approximately 98 commodity pool participants.

The order stems from a CFTC enforcement action filed on September 21, 2010, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, charging the defendants with solicitation fraud and misappropriation of customer funds in connection with the operation of a commodity pool.

Specifically, the CFTC’s complaint charges that, since at least November 2008, defendants fraudulently solicited and pooled at least $1.2 million dollars from approximately 98 participants to invest in commodity futures, foreign currency (forex), gold and securities. However, the defendants allegedly failed to disclose to participants that their funds would be used to trade commodity futures and forex and failed to disclose the significant risks associated with such trading. Defendants also misrepresented that participants would not lose their principal, while failing to disclose the full extent of their trading losses, according to the complaint.

Gallardo, Ochoa and Iracheta also charged with misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars of participant funds.

The complaint also alleges that Gallardo, Ochoa and Iracheta together misappropriated at least $533,000 of participant funds for personal uses, such as for automobile expenses, mortgage payments and debit card purchases for entertainment, travel and food.

In its continuing litigation, the CFTC seeks full restitution to defrauded customers, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, rescission of contracts, civil monetary penalties, trading and registration bans and permanent injunctions against further violations of federal commodities laws.

Defendants ordered to appear in federal court on October 8.

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