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With the prosecution resting on a civil complaint charging Gold and Silver Reserve, Inc. with operating as an unlicensed money-transmitting business, Jackson finally acquiesced in July 2008 and plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering (a victimless crime) and operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business rather than the alternative threat of 20 years in jail and a half million dollar fine.
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Close to the village of Amatlan, a large reserve of gold and silver still sits in a now unused mine.
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What Sanj and his colleagues had discovered is reckoned to be the greatest unexploited reserve of copper, gold and silver on the planet.
BBC: The riches under Mongolia's Turquoise Hill
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When China lowered the bank reserve ratio, commodities including gold, silver and copper jumped higher.
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Gold and silver also saw some fresh demand surface following bullish comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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The gold and silver markets popped higher immediately following the GDP report, on ideas the weak data will prompt the Federal Reserve to adhere to is very easy money policies presently in place.
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