THELOGICALINDIAN - JPMorgan Chase has accepted to artifice accuse and agreed to achieve with the US Department of Justice the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission The close has agreed to pay about a billion dollars in penalties and victim compensation
JPMorgan’s Fraud Cases
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appear abstracted accomplishments adjoin New York-based all-around cyberbanking and banking casework close JPMorgan Chase & Co. and several of its subsidiaries on Tuesday. According to the agencies, JPMorgan has accepted to artifice accuse and agreed on settlements to boldness bent accuse adjoin it.
The Justice Department explained that the bent accuse adjoin JPMorgan Chase chronicle to two audible schemes to defraud. “The aboriginal involving tens of bags of episodes of actionable trading in the markets for adored metals futures contracts, and the additional involving bags of episodes of actionable trading in the markets for U.S. Treasury,” the DOJ advertisement details.
The CFTC apart issued an adjustment charging and clearing with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its subsidiaries, JPMorgan Chase Bank and J.P. Morgan Securities “for artful and ambiguous conduct and bluffing that spanned at atomic eight years and complex hundreds of bags of bluff orders in adored metals and U.S. Treasury futures affairs on the Commodity Exchange, Inc., the New York Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade.” The CFTC detailed:
This absolute bulk includes the accomplished restitution, disgorgement, and civilian budgetary amends amounts in any bluffing case, the bureau added.
“For about a decade, a cogent cardinal of JP Morgan traders and sales cadre aboveboard abandoned U.S. laws that serve to assure adjoin actionable action in the marketplace,” Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office commented. “JP Morgan Chase and Co. agreed to pay about one billion dollars in penalties and victim compensation.”
In addition, the Balance and Exchange Commission issued an adjustment charging J.P. Morgan Balance “for fraudulently agreeable in artful trading of U.S. Treasury securities.” According to the SEC:
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