Wow! Called a corrupt puppet in the first sentence! "Exploration paid for itself" is not information. The only exploration ever done at Tesoro was mining a thin little spider vien. It paid the $3 per day Peruvians their wages maybe, but not Lori's private jet tours of Europe. Look, if the property was so great, it would have been sold to a real mining company before you ever heard of it.                                                  I bet Lori couldn't find Peru on a map. But she did understand one thing very well....human psychology. That's how she was able to relieve several thousand suckers from their life savings. And best of all, she committed the perfect crime. She stole your money. The police investigated. Everyone said "No, she didn't steal our money! She stole our gold!" But there was no gold. She admitted there was no gold. Not enough for a mine anyway. Case closed. Then all the same idiots said "The police, government, world bank, Nato, city council, and every other institution on earth are part of a vast conspiracy to keep us from our gold!"