Tagged: Commodity Market Manipulation

Episode 236 — The Glencore FCPA and Fraud Settlement

In a long-anticipated and major enforcement action, the Justice Department and the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission resolved a sprawling investigation with Glencore International A.G. and Glencore Ltd, a Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company. Glencore entered guilty pleas for FCPA violations and a commodity price manipulation scheme. Glencore paid over $1.1 billion to resolve these two major investigations. The resolution in the U.S. was part of...