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Gold Trader’s Chat Bragged About ‘How Easy’ It Is to Manipulate Prices

(Bloomberg) -- Chat logs introduced as evidence by prosecutors at the Chicago spoofing trial of two

Gold Trader’s Chat Bragged About ‘How Easy’ It Is to Manipulate Prices

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Less than a second later, Pacilio’s sell order was canceled, she said.</p>\n<p>Garibotti said employees at Analysis Group put in about 3,000 hours studying data in this case over the course of several years, billing the government $1.2 million for its work.</p>\n<p>The defense attorneys have not yet begun cross-examining Garibotti.</p>\n<p>In opening arguments Tuesday, Bases’ defense attorney told the jury that once her client understood spoofing was illegal, he stopped doing it, and that nearly all the conduct the government identified was before the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, which specifically prohibited spoofing.</p>\n<p>The case is U.S. v. 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