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Case Number:

2:11-cr-00061

Court:

New York Eastern

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Judge:

Denis R. Hurley

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  1. October 18, 2016

    Feds Float Altered Probation For Embattled Ex-Trader

    A former commodities trader convicted of threatening to kill regulators should serve the remaining four months of his probation unsupervised so he can live with his fiancée in Florida, the federal government told a New York federal judge Monday, saying the decision is in everyone's best interests.

  2. November 13, 2015

    Convicted Trader Can't Toss 'Fearful' Judge From CFTC Suit

    A former trader convicted of threatening to murder regulators cannot toss a "fearful" judge from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's civil action against the man, with a New York federal court ruling Friday that none of his claims represented extrajudicial bias.

  3. August 13, 2015

    Trader Jailed For Threats Calls Probation Slip-Up Harmless

    Convicted former futures trader Vincent P. McCrudden told a Brooklyn federal judge Thursday that his post-release contact with felons he befriended while in prison was "innocuous" and that his lies about contacting them, while a probation violation, should not result in additional prison time.

  4. July 30, 2015

    Convicted Trader Violated Probation By Calling Felons

    A New York federal judge found Wednesday that former commodities trader Vincent P. McCrudden violated his probation by associating with felons via letter and phone call, activity McCrudden had said didn't technically count as association.

  5. March 17, 2015

    Trader's 'Vile' Letters To Judges Don't Violate Probation: Court

    A New York federal judge ruled Monday that former commodities trader Vincent P. McCrudden did not violate his supervised release by sending "undisputably vile, inane communications" to various judges.

  6. April 06, 2012

    Execution Threats To Regulators Earn Trader 28-Month Term

    Former commodities trader Vincent P. McCrudden was sentenced to 28 months in prison Friday for threatening to kill over 40 employees of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators.

  7. July 18, 2011

    Former Trader Cops To Agency Death Threats

    Former commodities trader Vincent P. McCrudden pled guilty Monday in New York to threatening to murder 47 attorneys and officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other federal agencies.

  8. July 06, 2011

    CFTC Fights Call For Recusal In Menacing Trader's Suits

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday rebuffed a money manager's call to disqualify the federal judge overseeing the agency's lawsuit in New York over his trading activities as well as a criminal action over death threats the trader allegedly made to regulators.

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