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Elissa Slotkin: “The Commodities Future Trading Commission has a…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 10:27

The Department of Justice has a responsibility to go after these kinds of insider trading, and they have asked the Southern District of New York to go after this. In particular, they handle financial crimes. The Commodities Future Trading Commission has a responsibility to also go after insider trading. They have opened up investigations on four of these instances. They have the power to impose millions of dollars in fines and potentially send people to jail for 20 years. This is an incredibly important investigation. (10:27–10:37)

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Asserts that the CFTC is investigating four instances of insider trading.

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