CFTC says ex-Goldman trader hid $8.3B position

Published November 9, 2012 10:44pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has filed civil fraud charges against a former Goldman Sachs trader for hiding a trade that cost his employer more than $118 million.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Matthew Marshall Taylor in federal court in Manhattan. The agency says he failed to disclose an $8.3 billion position on a futures contracts that came back to hurt the company in December 2007.

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