By Linda Sandler | Bloomberg The Peregrine Financial Group Inc.trustee didn’t complete necessary tests before announcing a plan to distribute $123 million to customers of the defunct futures brokerage, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said. The tests were essential because Peregrine collapsed amid a fraud and theft of money by founder Russell Wasendorf Sr., the CFTC said in a filing yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago. “The CFTC is in favor of distributing money to the debtor’s customers as soon as is reasonable and practicable,” the regulator said. “Because this case involves allegations of fraudulent books and records of the debtor’s estate,…