1810 '18
Energy Enforcement Update
This week’s enforcement update covers:
- CFTC announces Insider Trading & Information Protection Task Force;
- FERC approves settlement with Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. related to capacity payments;
- Second Circuit upholds New York zero emission credits for nuclear facilities;
- Petrobras pays over $1.7 billion to settle corruption charges with U.S. and Brazilian authorities;
- Judge denies Powhatan and Chen motion to dismiss on statute of limitations grounds;
- CFTC finds Mizuho Bank, Ltd. engaged in spoofing of Treasury futures and Eurodollar futures;
- CFTC finds that proprietary trading firm Geneva Trading USA, LLC engaged in spoofing;
- FERC Enforcement requests that Commission vacate Order to Show Cause to Footprint; and
- CFTC orders futures trader and trading firm to pay $2.3 million in penalties for spoofing and manipulative scheme.
2506 '18
Energy Enforcement Update
This week’s enforcement update covers:
- FERC issues Order to Show Cause to Footprint for alleged tariff violations and submission of false information;
- The Supreme Court denies TOTAL petition for writ of certiorari;
- FERC settles with Duke Energy regarding alleged violation of FERC market behavior rule on communications;
- CFTC orders Société Générale S.A. to pay $475 million penalty to resolve charges of alleged LIBOR and Euribor manipulation; and
- U.S. Department of Justice announces new policy on coordination of corporate penalties.