ENSERCO ENERGY, INC. PAYS $3 MILLION TO SETTLE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED MANIPULATION AND FALSE REPORTING; Enserco Energy, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Black Hills Corporation, Settles CFTC Claims That It Intentionally Reported False Natural Gas Trade Information To Energy Reporting Firms In An Attempt To Manipulate The Price Of Natural Gas Contracts Market manipulation

CFTC release 4826-03 · 2003-07-31 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number: 4826-03
Release date: 2003-07-31
Type: Market manipulation
Primary source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/4826-03

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The CFTC charges market participants under the Commodity Exchange Act for spoofing, manipulation, fraud, wash trades, registration violations, and commodity-pool-operator misconduct. Most actions settle with restitution + civil money penalty + a bar/suspension. Crypto-asset cases have been a major share since 2019.