Russell Mokhiber

From the National Press Building in Washington, D.C., this is your Corporate Crime Reporter Morning Minute for Thursday, October 8, 2026.

I'm Russell Mokhiber.

For years, American cotton farmers suspected that they were getting cheated by powerful companies that bought and sold their goods to overseas buyers.

When a whistleblower came forward who appeared to validate those suspicions in 2021, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said, began an investigation.

That's according to a report in the New York Times.

The handling of the Louis Dreyfus matter came in the midst of an enormous rollback in enforcement at the CFTC.

For the Corporate Crime Reporter, I'm Russell Mokhiber.