| Commodity Traders Rake In Cash During Trump Administration Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. A little over two years ago, a cadre of global commodity traders was caught bribing officials across Latin America and Africa to secure lucrative state oil contracts, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. They were forced to pay the U.S. government nearly $2 billion in fines and forfeitures, in exchange for a pause on further criminal charges. |