Since we're talking about gold market manipulation, you might be interested in this: I wrote a letter to the DOJ highlighting my own findings on extraordinarily unusual statistical variances in gold and silver bullion prices.
Of course, it went nowhere, but here it is for posterity's sake -- https://steemit.com/gold/@bullishmoney/my-letter-to-the-department-of-justice-urging-investigation-of-gold-silver-market-manipulation