Federal Court Orders Brian Hunter of Calgary, Alberta to Pay a $750,000 Civil Fine in CFTC Action Alleging Attempted Manipulation of Natural Gas Futures Prices during the Expiry on Two Trading Days Market manipulation

CFTC release 7000-14 · 2014-09-16 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number: 7000-14
Release date: 2014-09-16
Type: Market manipulation
Primary source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/7000-14

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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.