Amaranth Entities Ordered to Pay a $7.5 Million Civil Fine in CFTC Action Alleging Attempted Manipulation of Natural Gas Futures Prices Market manipulation

CFTC release 5692-09 · 2009-08-13 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number: 5692-09
Release date: 2009-08-13
Type: Market manipulation
Primary source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/5692-09

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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.