CFTC Offered to Settle Lawsuit for $175,000, McCrudden Says
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An ex-commodities trader who pleaded guilty to threatening to kill financial regulators, including Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler, said the CFTC offered to settle a civil case against him for a $175,000 fine and a lifetime ban from the industry.
Vincent P. McCrudden, awaiting sentencing in a Queens, New York, jail, told U.S. District Judge Denis R. Hurley in Central Islip, New York, about the offer in a letter made public Jan. 9. Settlement negotiations on Dec. 12 were unsuccessful, according to an order by U.S. Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson, who, according to McCrudden “endorsed” the CFTC’s offer.