COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COM'N v. BATTOO

No. 14-3133.

790 F.3d 748 (2015)

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nikolai S. BATTOO, et al., Defendants. Appeal of Hadley Chilton and John J. Greenwood, as Liquidators of certain investment funds registered in the British Virgin Islands.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlin Ray Metzger , Attorney, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Thomas P. Walsh , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, Kavita Kumar Puri , Robert A. Schwartz , Andrew Ridenour , Attorney, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of the General Counsel, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Eric H. Sussman , Emily Lynne Seymore , Attorney, Paul Hastings LLP, Chicago, IL, Suzanne N. Boyd , Attorney, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA, Lexander S. Lorenzo , Alston & Bird LLP, New York, N.Y., for Appellants.

Before EASTERBROOK and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and REAGAN, District Judge.


The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have concluded that Nikolai Battoo committed fraud. Battoo and his companies, all located outside the United States, have defaulted in the two agencies' suits, and the district judge froze all assets they controlled pending a final decision...

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