The Wall Street Journal recently quoted Mayer Brown Partner Matthew F. Kluchenek regarding a federal judge’s demand that the new chairman and two commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) testify in response to a motion for contempt and sanctions. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Judge John Robert Blakey ordered CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert to testify about agency statements regarding a $16 million consent order (“Consent Order”)[1] with Kraft Foods Group Inc. and Mondelez Global LLC (“Kraft and Mondelez”) to settle a 2015 complaint that alleged wheat market manipulation.[2]
Continue Reading Federal judge orders CFTC commissioners to testify about public statements following the issuance of a consent order in CFTC v. Kraft