The incident raises alarm over officials’ moves to insulate insiders from anti-corruption enforcement.

A Trump administration official intervened against an insider trading investigation into suspiciously timed oil sales made just minutes before a critical announcement by President Donald Trump related to the Iran war this March, new reporting finds. Analysts within the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal government’s regulator against abuses in derivatives markets…

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