P. M. BRIEFING : Jailed Trader Fined $1.125 Million
<i> From Times wire services </i>
CHICAGO —
A futures trader already serving a six-year jail term for donning a wig and disguising himself in the pits was fined a record $1.125 million and barred permanently from the Chicago Board of Trade, the exchange said today.
Trader Thompson Sanders must pay the record fine for engaging in a yearlong scheme where he and several confederates used counterfeit trading credentials and disguises so they could acknowledge only the trades where they turned a profit and walk away from losing transactions.
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