CFTC SUES AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC. AND ITS SUBSIDIARY, CHARGING FALSE REPORTING AND ATTEMPTED MANIPULATION OF NATURAL GAS PRICES; AEP and its Subsidiary Charged with Routinely Reporting Thousands of False Natural Gas Trades to Publications Market manipulation

CFTC release 4846-03 · 2003-10-01 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number: 4846-03
Release date: 2003-10-01
Type: Market manipulation
Primary source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/4846-03

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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.