A former NYPD officer from Bellerose was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court on Sept. 10 to three years in prison for defrauding over 20 investors out of more than $4 million in a foreign exchange (forex) trading fund.

Jason Rodriguez, 38, pleaded guilty last November to conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to his role as the chief operating officer of Technical Trading Team LLC, based on a slew of misrepresentations.

According to court filings and the defendant’s admissions, Rodriguez and his co-conspirator Edwin Carrion founded the Technical Trading Team (TTT) in the spring of 2020. Rodriguez had sole trading authority over the vast majority of the nearly $5 million raised from over 20 individual investors. Rodriguez and Carrion promised investors annual investment returns ranging f

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