On August 3, 2020, Judge Broderick of the Southern District of New York entered a consent order between the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) along with two ex-NYMEX staffers—William Byrnes and Christopher Curtin—in which the parties agreed to pay a $4 million dollar fine to the CFTC for disclosing derivatives trading information to a third-party broker.