FEDERAL COURT REFUSES TO DISMISS NATURAL GAS MANIPULATION CASE AGAINST FORMER ENRON VICE PRESIDENT; CFTC Previously Charged Hunter Shively With Manipulating Prices in Natural Gas Market Market manipulation
Key facts
- Release number
- 4899-04
- Release date
- 2004-03-11
- Type
- Market manipulation
- Primary source
- https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/4899-04
About CFTC enforcement
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.