FBI Wary Of Threat To Goldman Sachs

Handwritten Letters Sent To Newspapers Threaten Investment Firm

(AP)  The FBI is investigating anonymous mailed threats against the Goldman Sachs investment firm but does not consider the warnings to be of "high credibility," an investigator said Friday.

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.

[tylenol6]

GOLDMAN SACHS IS PART OF THE "NEW WORLD ORDER". I
THINK 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.

[mitywhity]

Some proclaim we have freedom, but with our brand of freedom has come division not unification and common cause.............
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.

[l8c6]

MityWhity, Perhaps it's high time the western world reread the story of the invading Moors and what it took to get the sneaky snakes back in their cages. They have religious fanaticism as their glue but what does the western world have? Some proclaim we have freedom, but with our brand of freedom has come division not unification and common cause.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

[mitywhity]

Real or not, the fact that muslims have proliferated our country makes any threat noteworthy - pardon the pun. Cal Thomas says it better than I when he says; "When will we wake up?" I have already awoken personally when the first bombing of the Trade Center occurred during the Clinton administration. As evidenced by the "good doctors" of the British Isles who were "peace loving muslims", we all need to wake up! As with any peoples group, you have the bold and the meek. The meek claim that they are against terror, yet when the bold finally attain power through violence and institute sharia law, the meek become bold and join right in. Go to CAIR.com - read for your self the false denials. They purport one thing and do another - research CAIR for yourself. Americans who do not follow allah need to unite and become very vigilant unless you want to see your children's children learning the quran and praying towards the east.

[djmo1-2009]

It was nondescript in 2001, there wasn't even the courtesy of a note. Is there speculation that a terrorist cell is now bound by the rules of etiquette?

[l8c6]

It was YOUR people. It was YOUR issue! "Genocide"!
Posted by donnie900

O.k.,it's now confirmed,you're sitting and spinning on a pinnacle while smoking crack.

[radiob-2009]

This sounds more like a disgruntled former employee trying to get revenge on his former employer than a actual terrorist attack.

[cmp271]

Start checking the buildings themselves and the background of the employees.

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????

[donnie900]

Yup.. FBI agents got dem der PHDs.. and freak'n.. doctorates.. and freak'n.. high school diplomas. And ya can't fool them! Uh-uh.. They'ze too smart. Thats what they go to school fer, ya know. To tell the difference! Between a fake and a phoney.

[donnie900]

"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."

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"!

[donnie900]

Communication? *Big sigh*.. Communication is a difficult thing to grasp. Most of the time it *is* rhetorical.. It *is* just a good sounded song. But sometimes! Sometimes.. it gets specific. And when it gets specific, good things are done. Productive things..

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.

[l8c6]

donnie900, One this is simple, you and your deluded mind.

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.

[donnie900]

They gate them to keep the coyotes out.

[l8c6]

The United States treasury is NOT the United States Treasury. It is a privatized entity that extends beyond the bouderies of the United States.

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.

[donnie900]

Its very simple. The only thing indelible around here is the religious extremism.

[donnie900]

"donnie900, Can't you read? Business in itself is not bad, but it needs laws imposed on it as much as the individual tattoo covered sociopath who shot the prison guard in Utah last week."

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?

[l8c6]

I like many people are beyond tired of being labeled anti-american by some of the most unpatriotic flag waving, double standard living, hypocrits that contradict the founding principles of this nation ever to via paperwork call themselves legal citizens.

[donnie900]

Nobody's threatening your way of life. They're just making money. And unless you learn how to talk to these people, they will always be your rich enemies. And thats a life of poverty! Poverty! Socialism does not work. And it can never work.

The only thing that works is capitalism.

[l8c6]

donnie900, Can't you read? Business in itself is not bad, but it needs laws imposed on it as much as the individual tattoo covered sociopath who shot the prison guard in Utah last week.

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.

[feelfree1]

Re: "We are inside."

We know. The former top financial pirate from Goldman Sachs, is our current Treasury Secretary.

What a coincidence?