HMM: CFTC ‘Staff’ Placed on Leave Amid Investigation. “The interesting reference Chairman Pham made regarding the union leadership’s part in facilitating this fraud might also turn out to be uncomfortable for those folks, considering the seriousness of the violations listed in the IG report. Chairman Pham does say ‘criminal violations of the law’ in her official statement and ‘members’ of the staff have been put on administrative leave. Could be a serious house cleaning coming.”

The government needs a lot of that.