Monday, May 21, 2007

Web Sites Ordered to Pay $3.6 Million for Energy-Trading Scam, CFTC Says

(Bloomberg) -- A U.S. federal court ordered two Web
sites to pay $3.65 million for bilking investors by posing as an
energy-trading exchange and a broker, the U.S. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission said.

The sites, which used the names York Commodities and the
American Energy Exchange, were ordered by a U.S. District Court
in Manhattan to reimburse investors almost $3.3 million and pay
$390,000 in fines, the Washington-based CFTC said today.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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