Barclays fined for US price fixing

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MSN.com - 7/18/13, Press Association

Barclays has been fined by US regulators

Barclays has been fined by US regulators

Barclays and four of its traders have been fined 453 million dollars (£300 million) by United States regulators for manipulating power prices.

FERC said it found a trail of emails and instant messages that revealed the power price rigging.

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This is where spying on emails is very lucrative.

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That huge spy and data mining infrastructure that we have all heard about has hit pay dirt. Now I know they say that it's not about the money,  but they also said they wouldn't spy on us either. "Just one more bank job and I swear that will be it." LOL