Originally Posted by beaner

This was back in 2010 and it was a algo flagged penalty. Very hard to find the reason.

It turned out it was home page scrolling disclaimer text. At that time their was an increase in penalties for this because google took it as trying to hide text. It was an incredibly diffucult penalty to figure out. After i removed it site returned within 3 days.

Looks like someone just got out of sandbox so cheers, there is hope.