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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: American Electric Power Company, Inc. and AEP Energy Services, Inc.
Current Parent Company: American Electric Power
Penalty: $30,000,000
Year: 2005
Date: January 26, 2005
Offense Group: miscellaneous offenses
Primary Offense: data submission deficiencies
Violation Description: American Electric Power and its subsidiary AEPES agreed to pay $30 million to resolve CFTC allegations that they repeatedly and deliberately reported false natural gas trading information, including price and volume information, to certain firms that compile natural gas price indexes. The complaint further alleged that AEP and AEPES knowingly delivered false information to price index compilers in an attempt to skew those indexes for their financial benefit.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Ohio
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: utilities and power generation
Specific Industry of Current Parent: utilities
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