The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that it filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against a precious metals dealer, Argent Asset Group LLC (Argent), and a precious metals depository, First State Depository Company, LLC (FSD), both of Wilmington, Delaware, and their owner, Robert Leroy Higgins (Higgins) of West Chester, Pennsylvania, charging them with fraud in connection with a multimillion-dollar precious metals scheme. On September 29, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Andrews signed an ex parte statutory restraining order freezing assets ... (full story)