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Cases / Trading, forex & commodities

First Financial LLC

Feisal Sharif

ReportedNov 27, 2012
LocationBranford, CT
Amount$5,400,000

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Company / entity
First Financial LLC
Industry
Commodity futures trading pool
How investors were recruited
Direct solicitation of prospective investors (at least 50 participants)
Pitch & red flags
Promised returns of "1 percent to 15 percent"; fabricated trading statements; allegedly admitted to a participant he was running a Ponzi scheme

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Source

CFTC official

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