U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COM'N v. ESCOBIO

No. 19-11027.

946 F.3d 1242 (2020)

U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert ESCOBIO, Defendant-Appellant, Susan Escobio, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 6, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Stukes , Robert Alexander Schwartz , U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, Ashley John Burden , Rosemary Hollinger , Joseph A. Konizeski , Carlin Ray Metzger , U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Peter Winslow Homer , Christopher John King , Homer Bonner Jacobs, PA, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

G. Ware Cornell, Jr. , Cornell & Associates, PA, Weston, FL, for Intervenor.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, BRANCH, and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.


This case involves the enforcement of a judgment the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") obtained against Robert Escobio. Among other things, the judgment ordered Escobio to pay $1,543,892 within 10 days in restitution to the investors who fell victim to his commodity-fraud scheme. Instead of enforcing the restitution order pursuant...

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