CFTC Settles Natural Gas False Reporting and Attempted Manipulation Lawsuit with Two Energy Traders Market manipulation

CFTC release 5258-06 · 2006-11-18 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number
5258-06
Release date
2006-11-18
Type
Market manipulation
Primary source
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/5258-06

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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.