Record #5752
There will be no serious federal investigation into the suspicious oil/S&P futures trades placed just before Trump's March 2026 Iran-strike-delay announcement
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Occurrence 1 of 1 · source record #5752 David Pakman · Peak chaos hits over war, money, insider trading
Original quoteObviously not. Of course, that's not going to happen. And we all know it's not going to happen because we've seen this play out before. It's never investigated.
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How the call settles
No DOJ/SEC/CFTC investigation or congressional investigation is opened into the pre-announcement March 2026 oil and S&P futures trading
Our reasoning
NO on the research record because The CFTC opened an investigation (reported 15 April 2026 by WSJ/Bloomberg) into the spike in crude oil futures trading — over $500 million in trades in the ~15 minutes before Trump's 23 March 2026 Truth Social post postponing strikes, roughly 9x normal volume — focusing on at least three firms and trading on NYMEX and ICE. Rep. Ritchie Torres also formally demanded SEC and CFTC probes.. Applied stored rule: No DOJ/SEC/CFTC investigation or congressional investigation is opened into the pre-announcement March 2026 oil and S&P futures trading.
Outcome evidence
The CFTC opened an investigation (reported 15 April 2026 by WSJ/Bloomberg) into the spike in crude oil futures trading — over $500 million in trades in the ~15 minutes before Trump's 23 March 2026 Truth Social post postponing strikes, roughly 9x normal volume — focusing on at least three firms and trading on NYMEX and ICE. Rep. Ritchie Torres also formally demanded SEC and CFTC probes.
Outcome date: 2026-04-15
Verdict recorded: 2026-08-09
Basis: research