FERC flexes its New Muscle with $30M fine on former Amaranth Advisors trader Brian Hunter

April 29th, 2011
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In the first application of its new enforcement capability, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) finally acted on its finding that a former trader violated trading rules resulting in illegal profits. According to FuturesMag.com, Brian Hunter, formerly of Amaranth Advisors LLC, was found to have engaged in price manipulation of natural gas futures in 2006 for the purpose of increasing the profits generated from derivative investments.

The $30 million fine handed down on April 25, 2011 comes after three years of litigation against Brian Hunter and an initial ruling by an administrative law judge that anti-manipulation rules were violated. Amaranth Advisors settled with FERC in August of 2009. The large fine is the first exercise of FERC’s expanded authority to discourage price manipulation under the Natural Gas Act.
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Amaranth Advisors*
Verition Fund Management LLC
Related People: Brian Hunter*; John Guarnera; Manos Vourkoutiotis; Manos Vourkoutiotis*; Nicholas Maounis; Nicholas Maounis*; Steve Zheng
Related Entities: Amaranth Global Equities LLC*; Amaranth Global Securities Inc*; Amaranth International LLC; Amaranth LLC*; Paloma Securities LLC*:; Amaranth Advisors*; Amaranth Capital Partners LLC*; Verition Fund; Verition Group; Verition Multi-Strategy Fund LLC; Veriton Fund Management*
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