intent to allegedly depress its prices and book profits as they controlled more than 85 percent of the commercial net short position in silver futures contracts. JP Morgan built on its silver short positions even more after its March 2008 acquisition of investment bank Bear Stearns. Another lawsuit by Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP on behalf of an unnamed individual investor claimed that the manipulation was on as recently as March 2010 when a whistleblower, a metals trader based in London, reported the scheme to the CFTC.

Matt said that as many as 20 class action complaints had been filed against the two banks but explained that most of them were anti-trust claims while his firm was charging them with “violation of the Commodity Exchange Act and the RacketeeringTurkel, partner in real estate law firm Rosenberg & Estis P.C who specializes in landlord tenant litigation which he says are increasingly being triggered by these bugs.

Bedbugs, that were once nearly eradicated, have now spread across the city in part because of the decline in the use of DDT and increased movement of humans and goods.

These pesky critters can jump onto your shoes, clothes, books, office drawers, old mattresses and as Peruyero recalls, “were even been found in an X-box once.” They travel long distances – sometimes dubbed the best hitchhikers – surviving up to a year without food and can live in colder climates as well, explained entomologist Louis Sorkin.

Found in the best of homes and most public of places -- from creeping in the basement of