Ex-JPMorgan Traders Convicted in Federal Fraud Trial
A federal jury in Chicago convicted two former traders of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s precious metals desk, which had been charged with manipulating gold prices, found they were using deceptive orders to rig prices.
The convictions are the cornerstone of a seven-year campaign by the Justice Department to punish a style of deceptive trading in futures markets known as spoofing. The quick-fire strategy was prevalent at some Wall Street banks before Congress banned spoofing in 2010, and persisted even after the ban, according to prosecutors. JPMorgan paid $920 million in 2020 to settle regulatory and criminal charges against the bank over the traders̵[ads1]7; conduct.