December 21, 2018

Newport Private Capital LLC and its principal, Jonathan Hansen, have been ordered to pay a $315,000 penalty for a “cherry-picking” scheme by which NPC entered multiple orders for commodity interests, but only allocated the orders to specific customer accounts after they were executed.  The defendants then preferentially allocated the transactions that turned out to be profitable to accounts in the name of Hansen’s spouse, and not to the accounts of other NPC customers.  CFTC

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