JP Morgan Chase agrees to pay $920
million in fines tied to market
manipulation of precious metals—the
largest ever imposed by the US government
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/29/2020 5:59:10 PM
JPMorgan Chase will pay a record $920million to settle US civil and criminal charges over fake trades in precious metals and Treasury futures designed to manipulate the market, US agencies announced Tuesday. The settlement comes as the US banking giant reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department to resolve criminal fraud charges over the long-running schemes. In one of the schemes, JPMorgan traders in New York, London and Singapore between 2008 and 2016 commissioned tens of thousands of orders for gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures that were placed in order to be canceled to deceive other market participants, the Department
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foreign link to Trump's 2016
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The N.Y. Post article was an exclusive. That means all "fact checkers" that Facebook and Twitter will unleash to fact-check the article will be based on speculation, not fact. Because they don't have the laptop.
And, judging from a new video from Giuliani, things may be about to explode
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But she wasn’t originally positioned there. Before the town hall began, a Caucasian lady was originally positioned there.
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How are the big boys supposed to make their obscene fortunes if not by rigging the market?