Green Tree Capital is not a registered entity of any sort. THeyre simply phone gangsters that sell lies to raise money for trading programs that do not exist.
You all received fake account statements. You must track down your wire receipt for when you funded your account and see where the money went to. If it went to their corporate account, you can consider your money GONE. If it went to one of their pretendo Clearing houses(see FX High Summit - another scam) then there is a good chance your account wa actually traded.. err, churned.. this group graduated from the churn n burn businesss model (in which they were caught and banned by the NFA) and then elevated their game to straight out fraud and theft. If you cant keep a client while churning out commissions, the next best thing is to just steal the entire investors initial capital.
NONE of the names you are mentioning are REAL NAMES, aside from Lyndon Parilla. Some of you had similiar experiences in the past in FOREX; from the same crooks using different aliases and different shell companies, potentially in differnet unregulated asset classes.
YOU MUST report your experiences with the CFTC. You can also contact the FBI white collar crime division, one of which just so happens to be located in Beverly Hills as well.
You will most likely not get any money back that was sent to GTC's corporate bank account.
YOU must not believe that GTC has become insolvent. THey HAVE ALL OF YOUR MONEY... any money lost was due to ****ty trades in which probably generated an equal amount of commissions.
My advice: is for ALL OF YOU to kick down the door at the CHicago office of the CFTC and demand they take action to seize any and all assets attached to all parties involved. Also, I may have heard that GTC and its crooked affiliates may be funding Al Qaeda terrorsist plots, so you may want to contact the department of homeland security and have them collaborate their efforts with the other govt agencies that are currently investigating them...
Bottomline, if you want justice, YOU ARE gonna have to be the one that pushes the regulators and enforcers into taking action. There is very little a crook can do to outrun the federal goverment... that is, if they really want to catch you... and being that i heard they might be funding terrorist activities with their "offshore" clearing arrangments, that might just be what forces enforcement.
Hire a private investigator, hire BlackWater mercinaries, hire an attorney on contingency, hell - start a Twitter account posting the names of poeple related to GTC to futher expose the name on the web to attract others.
Above ALL: Do not invest in any marketplace that isnt a regulated! Do your duedilegence - check licensing status', ask for audited numbers in regards to performance records. question everything! Run all investments by your financial advisor - yeah, he'll most likely **** on anything you bring him that can threaten his own proprietary products he offers you, but at least get his professional opinion on compliance/safety/legitimacy. ANd stay the **** away from "managed Forex" accounts run by individuals that are not members of the NFA, more specifically - they should be registered as a CTA with the NFA, and they should be able to provide you with an audited track record of returns. IF they cant, run away. DO not invest in marketplaces outside of the US! You will have little recourse/arbitration/regulatory support if you do.