Das Bundesgericht der Hauptstadt beurteilt die Handlungen eines raffinierten Energiehändlers, der einen Weg fand, ohne Risiken bei Steigen oder Sinken des Energiemarkts zu verdienen. Das Amt legte eine Strafe von $15 Mio. und die Herausgabe des Gewinns fest, die es in dem Prozess vollstrecken darf, bestimmte das Gericht:
In essence, City Power found a way to place trades that had no risk of earning or losing money on the basis of price changes but that nonetheless triggered a financial credit for City Power from the market operator. After a lengthy investigation, FERC concluded that these trades constituted a fraudulent scheme that violated the Commission's Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2. FERC also concluded that by failing to reveal the existence of certain archived instant messages during the investigation, City Power had violated the Commission's Market Behavior Rule 3, 18 C.F.R. § 35.41(b) …