USA v. Aiyer

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Case Number:

1:18-cr-00333

Court:

New York Southern

Nature of Suit:

Firms

  1. November 19, 2019

    Profane Chats Proof Of Forex Rigging Conspiracy, Jury Hears

    A Manhattan jury is set to begin deliberating bid-rigging charges against former JPMorgan forex trader Akshay Aiyer after federal prosecutors and Aiyer's defense team clashed Tuesday over whether sometimes-crude chats prove the defendant schemed to short-change clients.

  2. November 01, 2019

    Chat Trick Stymied Compliance, Ex-Forex Trader Tells Jury

    Former Citigroup currency trader Christopher Cummins told a Manhattan jury Friday that he joined forces with Akshay Aiyer, a former JPMorgan trader on trial for bid-rigging, to avoid competition in part via online chats that were typed so banks' compliance personnel couldn't search them.

  3. October 31, 2019

    Forex Trader Tells NY Jury 'Immature' Chats Aren't Criminal

    The federal government's foreign currency price-fixing case against onetime JPMorgan trader Akshay Aiyer is based on cherry-picked, "immature" chats that are embarrassing but not criminal, his lawyer told a Manhattan jury Thursday, calling prosecutors' theory of criminality "simplistic."

  4. July 01, 2019

    Ex-JPMorgan Trader's Subpoena Should Be Axed, Feds Say

    Federal prosecutors have urged a New York federal court to quash the subpoena of a potential cooperating government witness in its case against a former JPMorgan foreign exchange trader who was indicted in an antitrust conspiracy last year, arguing that the request is "classic impeachment material."

  5. June 03, 2019

    Ex-JPMorgan Forex Trader Stuck Facing Conspiracy Charges

    A Manhattan federal judge on Monday denied a onetime JPMorgan trader's attempt to dump charges of bid-rigging and price-fixing conspiracy in the foreign exchange markets, ruling that it was too soon to exclude certain trading behaviors from examination. 

  6. April 22, 2019

    Feds Say Ex-JPMorgan Trader Can't 'Redraft' Rigging Case

    Prosecutors are asking a New York federal judge not to accept a former JPMorgan currency trader's "redraft" of the indictment charging him with a conspiracy to rig foreign exchange markets.

  7. March 25, 2019

    Ex-JPMorgan Trader Wants 'Duplicitous' Forex Case Dropped

    A former JPMorgan currency trader says the criminal case against him in New York federal court over alleged rigging of foreign exchange markets lumps together multiple trading behaviors, which must be analyzed through different legal principles, under a single conspiracy count.

  8. May 10, 2018

    Ex-Trader Indicted Over Role In Forex Rigging Conspiracy

    A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday accusing a former currency trader at a major U.S. bank of engaging in a conspiracy to manipulate prices in the foreign currency exchange market.

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