Federal Bureau of Investment? (Federal Bureau of Investigations agents profited while undercover in Chicago's futures markets) (Finance)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 28, 1989 | Copyright information

Federal Bureau of Investment?

WHEN Mr Rich Carlson, one of the FBI's undercover agents in Chicago's massive futures fraud investigation, won $4,000 on Sunday's Superbowl, he did not show up to claim the money. The balding agent disappeared from the soyabean futures pit at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) a week ago, just before news of the two-year sting operation by federal agents leaked out.

Mr Carlson was one of (at least) five agents who infiltrated the cl...

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