JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 6, 2007
FBI Wary Of Threat To Goldman Sachs
Handwritten Letters Sent To Newspapers Threaten Investment Firm
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The headquarters of investment firm Goldman Sachs in New York in a Dec. 11, 2006, file photo. The FBI is investigating anonymous threats against the firm contained in handwritten letters sent in late June, 2007, warning that "hundreds will die" and "We are inside. You cannot stop us." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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The letters, handwritten in red ink on loose-leaf paper and signed "A.Q.U.S.A.," were mailed to 20 newspapers around the country, authorities said. The letters contained the warning: "Hundreds will die. We are inside. You cannot stop us."
A federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press that the FBI "does not assign high credibility to the threat" because of the circumstances surrounding the letters, including their brevity and the nonspecific nature of the threat. The investigator spoke on condition of anonymity.
Michael DuVally, a Goldman Sachs spokesman, said the firm was working closely with law enforcement authorities, adding that authorities told the firm they don't believe the threat is credible.
"We take any threat to the safety to our people seriously," DuVally said. "We have a broad range of security measures in place to counter all likely threats and we're monitoring the situation closely."
New York FBI spokesman James Margolin said the bureau was trying to determine the origin of the letters. "All threats are taken seriously," he said.
The letters, postmarked in late June from the New York boroughs of Queens and the Bronx, were being analyzed by FBI and U.S. Postal inspectors at the FBI crime lab in Washington, and at the postal service lab in Dulles, Va., said Tom Boyle, a spokesman for the Postal Inspection Service.
Another investigator familiar with the case told the AP it may be difficult to isolate the fingerprints of whoever sent the letters because others touched the envelopes after they were mailed. The investigator said the letters are believed to have been dropped in mailboxes and not mailed from a post office.
The investigators who spoke on condition of anonymity did so because they were not authorized to discuss the case with the media.
Investigators said they also will be looking for DNA evidence that may have been contained in saliva left when the envelopes were sealed. In addition, they will be examining the postal bar codes routinely stamped on letters to pinpoint exactly where the letters entered the mail stream.
The letters were sent to newspapers in Seattle; Boise, Idaho; Corpus Christi, Texas; Fort Wayne, Ind.,; Bayonne and Newark, N.J., and cities in Vermont, Ohio and North Dakota.
The newspapers notified local law enforcement agencies after receiving the letters and in some cases alerted Goldman Sachs directly, law enforcement officials said. Officials said they have no reason to suspect that the newspapers that received the threatening letters have been targeted.
Jim Chapman, assistant metro editor of The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne said their paper received one of the letters postmarked Queens on July 2 and immediately turned it over to the FBI.
Goldman Sachs did not receive any of the threatening letters, Boyle said.
Goldman Sachs is based in New York and has offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other cities. About 3,000 people work in its 44-story Jersey City, N.J., tower.
It is a federal crime to send threats through the U.S. mail, punishable by up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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succeed, try, try, try again. you can always
lose, lose, lose again. not necessarily a
terrorist letter. probably a sore loser.
gambled and lost. i think a lotta these
so-called terrorist bombings are personal
vendettas and attempts at cashing in on
relatives life insurance etc. and other
methods of getting rich quick, and enjoying
life rather than working forever in jobs
that no sane man would want, like a slaughterhouse
or as a butcher at a grocery store, or one of
the many jobs only illegal aliens likes.
what if you had to be a 7-11 clerk from 9 pm
to 6 am 7 days a week. your mind would probably
try to figure some way out of the dilemma?
the authorities will have this wrapped up in
two shakes of a lambstail.
So if our smoke-and-mirror, trickle-down, pyramid scheme economy, should suddenly take a BIG DUMP, don't blame the greedy vultures at Goldman Sachs.
It is these scary letters that will be to blame!
This is probably just Cheney clowning around again.
It is these scary letters that will be to blame!
This is probably just Cheney clowning around again.
Posted by FeelFree1
One thing is for certain...we the people of this country will pay dearly to fund the security of multinational corporate bodies of wealth and power just as the serfs and peasants funded the oligarchies and church states of old europe.
I'm glad you guys are trained, and know what yer doing.
The multinational corporate devils have wanted big (representative) government off their backs putting forth this message with Ronald Reagan. They want big government off their backs because they want to be the government.
"Ohhhh! *big sigh*.. Its just some man.. *eyeroll*"
And with the campaign in near full swing? Right wing loonies? Left wing loonies? And everybody stuck in a middle like a oreo cookie.
Thats just radical muslim talk. Its their religion to go after big companies. To them, anybody who don't pray 5 times a day is a infidel.
Do you pray 5 times a day?
That.. dude who hid out in the virginia hills bombing abortion clinics was osama's big fan.
IQ to them is a orgazzzm.
Posted by donnie900
Wow, really? I didn't know Islamo fascists had so much in common with the chrisitian right...come to think of it, muslims, jews and some christians cut the skin off their di*cks at birth....maybe they should all come together on a common ground.
And insurance. You think that companies moving overseas should just.. tolerate indiscriminate acts of terror without some sort of compensation? Huh?
"God's paying for it."
Ya don't have to tell them how to do their jobs. And ya don't have to worry about everybody else, either. Cuz they got the psychological profile, right ******** there.. in front of'em.
And insurance. You think that companies moving overseas should just.. tolerate indiscriminate acts of terror without some sort of compensation? Huh?
"God's paying for it."
Posted by donnie900
What's wrong with individual rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness? What's wrong with the masses of humanity having a voice to protect themselves from economic bullies and sociopaths?
How is it business, an entity of human endeavor, is viewed as something that is free of wrong doing, that business can do no wrong, that it doesn't need laws and limits set on its behavior as much as any other human endeavor? The business world has managed through the right wing fascists to sheild itself from scrutiny much as religious ideologies and the medical field have and continue to in the minds of some. Business is a human endeavor that is being exploited by sociopaths who want free reign to terrorize economically and politically.
it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
thank you demonic-rats%u2026
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Multinational corporate sociopaths are creating the same kind of loop hole for themselves with the "free market"
In america for certain, you are as free as you are connected and wealthy.
How many americans would anticipate a pardon like Scooter Libby if committing high crimes and how many americans working for multinational corporations expect a secure retirement like Kenneth Lay?---yeah, he's dead but there are others as well as him at the top. Corruption is becoming a part of our culture and it's a terrible tragedy.
Such an attitude is anti-american. Just because something is a business doesn't mean we abandon our principle of presumption of innocence. One bad apple doesn't mean they're all bad. And some businesses out there, even if bad, wanna be good again.
Its indelibility thats the enemy. This.. permanent unacceptability of the makings of the world, at the way it does business. Things can change, but not thru violence. Quite the contrary.. Thats how they remain the same.
You're too permanent. You judge too quickly, basing that judgment merely on face value. And not examining the sources of these things. That can be surgically removed! Without sacrificing the whole..
Good comments.
Re: "We are inside."
We know. The former top financial pirate from Goldman Sachs, is our current Treasury Secretary.
What a coincidence?
This business can do no wrong, free unregulated market is all good and top business leaders are like God is a bunch of cr*ap.
Laws are very american donnie.
The only thing that works is capitalism.
Yah, but your dialogue is all in the rhetorical! Can you give any specifics? Or are you just out to make speeches? Huh? Complaining about the god damned weather! Huh?
Can anybody talk to you?
It has only one employee that is appointed by our pimped non-representative government. This one "federal" employee/appointee has one set of constituents he's accountable to and it is not the american people.
We the people will pay for the security that will protect their private gated enclaves.
You ask the questions...start seeking the truth, the truth will set you freer than holding your faith in a system that has become corrupted and non-representative of the masses of people of this nation.
Ronald Reagans non-informative double speak speeches about getting big government off the backs of some has worked out quite well for them. We have lost our voice, a supreme court that in disconnected from the people and three houses of government who are pimped by well connected wealth lobbys with multinational interests and a disdain for governments that represent the will of the people in their lands.
We the people should have seen the handwriting on the wall when our "democratic" government was in the business of funding right wing oppressive dictatorships around the world.
Narrow your skills. Not everything is the grand illusion.. Not everything is a side burn, or some chick admiring the way you talk. Some things are actually solvable.
My faith is not in a system. It never was.
"We the people should have seen the handwriting on the wall when our "democratic" government was in the business of funding right wing oppressive dictatorships around the world."
It was YOUR people. It was YOUR issue! "Genocide"!
The bombers in England, the warning was something such as those who you think will help you will kill or harm you...sounds like a warning to me about we are already inside! If anyone is reading let's hope they are heeding the suggestions on here , if there are any????
Posted by donnie900
O.k.,it's now confirmed,you're sitting and spinning on a pinnacle while smoking crack.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
To that I say yes - freedom is not for the unity of all peoples into one blurry mass. Freedom is for the full development of the individual apart from outward pressures to conform to a "common" existence. What has come under attack is that very thing, individuality. Political correctness has undermined the very tenets of our free society to even the distinction between what is masculine and what is feminine. The definition of tolerance has been expanded to mean that we all must tolerate to the very brink of endorsement of every religion, cause or behavior. Our brand of freedom is not the problem but the brand of unification is the danger here. It is psychological socialism aimed at achieving what bullets and bombs could not and that target is universal socialism. That is ideal fodder to grow the muslim religion in. Be an individual and not a participant.
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by tylenol6
July 7, 2007 6:04 PM PDT
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See all 42 CommentsTHINK IT IS ALL PART OF PLAN TO TERRORIZE THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE. I HOPE THEY ARE NOT FALLING FOR
THIS ***. ALSO, IF THERE IS ANY KIND OF ATTACK
ON THE U.S., I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL
DO MORE TO BUSH THAN JUST IMPEACH HIM FOR LEAVING
OUR BORDERS WIDE OPEN.