Warren Seeks US Probe of ‘Suspicious’ Wartime Oil Trades

US Senator Elizabeth Warren is asking the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to investigate “unusual trading patterns” in oil futures that took place immediately preceding Trump administration announcements of a potential ceasefire in the Iran war.

“This pattern raises serious questions about whether there has been recurring misappropriation of material nonpublic government information and about the extent to which individuals inside or outside the government have acted on such information,” Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate’s banking committee wrote.