Defendants Ordered to Pay $1.6 Million in Government's Attempted Manipulation Case against Concord Energy, LLC and Natural Gas Energy Traders Shawn McLaughlin and Darrell Danyluk Market manipulation
Key facts
- Release number
- 5300-07
- Release date
- 2007-03-15
- Type
- Market manipulation
- Primary source
- https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/5300-07
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.