Forbes-The Justice Department Goes Hunting For A Gold Price Fix .............
"What the U.S. investigators hope to find is a smoking gun linking some of the world’s biggest banks to allegations of market rigging, a job which European investigators have already dropped.
The starting point for the metals probe, which was launched before Christmas but has only just been revealed, is the process by which benchmark metal prices have historically been set in the private world of London banking."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timtreadgold/2015/02/24/the-justice-department-goes-hunting-for-a-gold-price-fix/