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Topic started on 27-3-2010 @ 03:50 PM by silent thunder
This strikes me as potentially enormous news. The government is finally taking notice of the blatant market manipulation that has been obvious to any investor with a pulse for some time.

The question becomes, is this the start of a serious shakeout or another bandaid over a sucking chest wound? I lean gloomily towards the latter but you never know.

Shenanigans and rigging in the silver market among certain big names
have been noted elsewhere on ATS as well.



-- More than a dozen banks and investment firms are suspected co-conspirators in a criminal probe by the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division into alleged bid rigging and price fixing in the municipal derivatives market, according to a court filing.

The list of banks was "inadvertently" filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Manhattan as part of a request for a bill of particulars in a criminal case against three former executives of CDR Financial Products Inc., a California municipal-bond broker. The executives, including CDR founder David Rubin, were indicted in October on conspiracy and fraud charges. They have denied wrongdoing.

In a letter Thursday, the lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero, who is hearing the criminal case, to strike the inadvertent filing.




More at source:
www.marketwatch.com...

JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named in Muni Bid-Rigging Suit



[edit on 3/27/10 by silent thunder]
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