 In a basement vault, agents discovered stacks of $100 bills, buckets and boxes of gold and silver coins, boxes of gem stones, trays of jewelry and Rolex watches.In April 2011, Vennes was indicted in federal court on charges of fraudulently marketing a hedge fund's investments in Petters Company, Inc. (PCI).The indictment alleged that Vennes engaged in 748 transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars from 1999 through September 2008, and made more than $140 million through investments and commissions.