EUGENE, Ore. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission claims in a federal complaint that Erik Jon Hass, of Lane County, Ore., defrauded foreign-exchange investors of $2.1 million through his company Simply Gains, and misappropriated at least $415,000 of it.
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