Merrill Lynch Traders Can’t Avoid Spoofing, Fraud Charges
Law360, 21 May 2020
The government’s June 2018 indictment says the traders’ scheme between June 2009 and October 2014 created the illusion of market movement by using large orders to inflate the price, with no intention of filling the orders, thus committing wire fraud, commodities fraud and conspiracy to commit commodities fraud.
