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书“哄抬（pumped）”资产价格以增加需求，同时欺骗性地掩盖了其之前不断持有

的头寸以及立即卖出头寸的意图。然后，当价格水平因欺骗性兜售而上涨时，他

出售所持有的数字资产以满足虚高的需求来实现“抛售（dumped）”。

Federal Court Orders Texas Man to Pay Over $290,000 for Manipulative and

Deceptive Digital Asset Pump-and-Dump Scheme (2022/7/18)

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U. S. District

Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order on July 14 for a

permanent injunction, monetary sanctions, and disgorgement of ill-gotten proceeds

against Jimmy Gale Watson of Dallas, Texas.

The consent order resolves the claims against Watson in the CFTC action filed

against Watson and John David McAfee on March 5, 2021 that alleged they engaged

in a manipulative and deceptive digital asset “pump-and-dump” scheme.

The order requires Watson to disgorge over $146,000 he received in ill-gotten

gains from the scheme and also to pay an equal amount in a civil monetary penalty.

The order also permanently prohibits Watson from engaging in further violations of

the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations as charged, and it

imposes registration and trading bans.

“The CFTC will continue actively to use its enforcement authority in the digital

asset space to combat fraud and manipulation,” said CFTC Acting Director of

Enforcement Gretchen Lowe.

Case Background

As found in the order, Watson participated in the scheme by assisting in the

strategic selection of suitable digital assets. As is typical of pump-and-dump schemes,
he also secretly accumulated positions in digital assets in anticipation of price spikes

following the misleading social media endorsements that touted the assets. These
endorsements “pumped” the asset in order to increase demand, while deceptively

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