a California court has ordered five individuals involved in the IcomTech Ponzi scheme to pay over $5 million for fraud and misappropriation of stolen funds through false bitcoin trading plans. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stated in a December 11th statement that a default judgment found David Carmona, Juan Arellano Parra, Moses Valdez, and David Brend responsible for all violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations alleged in the complaint, while Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa received a consent order.