Martin J Dempsey

Martin J. Dempsey and James D. Nowak had close trading ties to many other brokers and traders in Chicago Board of Trade's busy and volatile soybean trading pit. Unfortunately for them, one trader they did business with was a man named Richard Carlson. Unknown to the two brokers, Carlson was really Richard Ostrom, an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Martin J. Dempsey and James D. Nowak had close trading ties to many other brokers and traders in Chicago Board of Trade's busy and volatile soybean trading pit. Unfortunately for them, one trader they did business with was a man named Richard Carlson. Unknown to the two brokers, Carlson was really Richard Ostrom, an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In their search for fraud in Chicago's futures markets, the FBI went hunting for the high-living, flamboyant commodity trader of legend--and seems to have found its targets leading quiet, workaday lives. So say other traders and defense lawyers, who contend that most of the brokers and traders caught up in the early stage of the probe live modestly.

In their search for fraud in Chicago's futures markets, the FBI went hunting for the high-living, flamboyant commodity trader of legend--and seems to have found its targets leading quiet, workaday lives. So say other traders and defense lawyers, who contend that most of the brokers and traders caught up in the early stage of the probe live modestly.