Freepoint Commodities Ex-Analyst Claims Illegal Retaliation

A former senior analyst with Freepoint Commodities LLC claims he was fired from the energy-trading firm for resisting pressure to cooperate with executives in illegal insider trading, market manipulation and trade-theft schemes.

The analyst, Andrew Martin, sued May 14 in Manhattan federal court claiming wrongful termination and retaliation by Freepoint, where he had worked for a decade. Martin claimed he was fired to prevent him from reporting alleged violations during a planned visit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Freepoint’s Stamford, Connecticut, headquarters.