9/11 thefts not prosecuted

[imind]

NEW YORK (AP) - Once-secret documents obtained by The Associated Press show a disaster supply management company went unpunished for Sept. 11 thefts after the government discovered FBI agents and other government officials had stolen artifacts from New York's ground zero...

...The lead investigators for the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency told AP that the plan to prosecute KEI for those thefts stopped as soon as it became clear in late summer 2002 that an FBI agent in Minnesota had stolen a crystal globe from ground zero.

That prompted a broader review that ultimately found 16 government employees, including a top FBI executive and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, had such artifacts from New York or the Pentagon.

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so now that the public is aware, will anything happen?

 

[SummerMadness]

I wonder if people will look at the names involved and then try to ignore it because it's their job to turn away when confronted with something that goes against their political bias.

 

[Autumnleaf]

so now that the public is aware, will anything happen?

We're talking about people picking up stuff from the rubble. Aren't we? I don't see a crime here.

 

[ShawnaAnn]

It sounds like a common case of semantics, but if this is indeed a crime, whereas the average citizen were to steal an "artifact", then these people, (and not surprisingly, Donald Rumsfeld) aren't being treated as a human being, but rathar, somone above the law.

I don't have any respect whatsoever when people with government jobs aren't treated with the same rights we all are.

 

[Ave Maria]

I thought this was going to be about looters who looted some stores after the attacks or something and that they weren't being prosecuted.

 

[k]

Well, considering how the lower ranks usually get punished while the larger fish not just go free, but get lauded, it would be an anomaly.

 

[imind]

We're talking about people picking up stuff from the rubble. Aren't we? I don't see a crime here.

Kieger Enterprises of Lino Lakes, Minn., dispatched trucks to a Long Island warehouse and loaded hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donated bottled water, clothes, tools and generators to be moved to Minnesota in a plot to sell some for profit, according to government records and interviews.

 

[Autumnleaf]

Kieger Enterprises of Lino Lakes, Minn., dispatched trucks to a Long Island warehouse and loaded hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donated bottled water, clothes, tools and generators to be moved to Minnesota in a plot to sell some for profit, according to government records and interviews.

Are we reading the same article? The one I read was discussing how people picked up artefacts from ground zero and how they should be prosecuted for it. Fencing stolen goods is a different story.

 

[imind]

Are we reading the same article? The one I read was discussing how people picked up artefacts from ground zero and how they should be prosecuted for it. Fencing stolen goods is a different story.

the article speaks of both.