WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order filing and settling charges against , based in Houston, Texas, and its affiliate, , headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland(collectively Vitol)for exceeding the CFTC's position limits on aggregate positions across multiple exchanges in contracts that reference crude oil futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYME  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that four flight attendants charged in connection with smuggling drug money to the Dominican Republic have pled guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business. SARAH VALERIO PUJOLS pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald o  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Aug. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: Bernabe Lopez, age 59, of Utica, New York, was sentenced today to serve 88 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Carla Freedman; Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division   more