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RAIN 03/02 Weekly Update: Disasters, Thefts and other Travesties (13)



CP 02/22/02
Alta bank seeks green light on bribery
case after files lost in 9-11 attack
By DARCY HENTON
EDMONTON (CP) - The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center destroyed some of the files needed for a bribery lawsuit against the owners of the giant West Edmonton Mall, says a bank's investigator who is trying to speed up the tangled case.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/020223/6/jwq8.html



Star-Tribune 02/24/02
Tech watch: Disaster recovery part of tech jobs too
Nancy Karen walked into work at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, a Chicago-based
law firm, at 7:50 a.m. CST on Sept. 11, like she did on any other day. Minutes later
she learned that Tower One of the World Trade Center in New York City had been
struck by an airplane, followed by news of a second plane crashing into its south
tower.
Without warning, the 54-year-old chief information officer of the 1,300-person law
firm found herself thrust into a nightmare that would draw upon her 35 years of
experience as a technology professional. About 650 of the law firm's employees
worked at Tower One on floors 54 through 59.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1633332.html


Denver Post 02/24/02
Papers on dam possibly stolen
Sunday, February 24, 2002 - Federal agents and Lakewood police Friday night were investigating the possible theft of sensitive documents about Hoover Dam from a
Federal Highway Administration office in Lakewood.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%7E420969,00.html


Associated Press 02/26/02
Scandals Give Shredding Business Boost
Tue Feb 26,12:20 AM ET
By CHARLES SHEEHAN, Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH - John Wagner built his first paper shredder 35 years ago and sold less than a dozen a year before President Nixon released transcripts showing he ordered federal agents to cease their investigation of the Watergate break-in.
The next year, in 1975, Wagner sold 400 shredders out of his shop in Delmont, about 25 miles east of Pittsburgh.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020226/ap_on_bi_ge/shredder_s_delight_1



Providence Journal 02/27/02
Tax appeal records missing in Lincoln
The minutes for the tax board meetings were stored in unlocked file cabinets near the tax assessor's office. Officials didn't realize they were gone until the state police asked for them.
http://www.projo.com/report/html/blackstone/07123131.htm


USA Today 02/27/02
Editorial: Purloined letters
Half-truths. Implausible denials. Secret payoffs. Shredded documents.
The elements of the Enron scandal? Nope, the reaction of big-name
historians to revelations that they plagiarized parts of their popular
histories on the Kennedy family and World War II.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/02/27/edtwof2.htm


Washington Post 02/27/02
Historian Goodwin on Leave From PBS's 'NewsHour'
by Lisa de Moraes
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has taken an indefinite leave from PBS's "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," on which she appears as a contributor, after acknowledging in a New York
Times article that she failed to sufficiently acknowledge many more passages from other writers in her book on the Kennedys than originally reported.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8005-2002Feb26.html



New York Times 02/27/02
Shopkeeper Finds Documents Left by Secret Service Agents
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Secret Service agents shopping for souvenirs in Salt Lake City left behind instructions for protecting Vice President Dick Cheney and his family at the Winter Olympics, officials said today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/27/olympics/27SECR.html



icSouthLondon.co.uk 02/28/02
Law worker jailed for railway robberies
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200s...donheadlines/page.cfm?objectid=11658985&method=full



New York Times 03/01/02
If Found, Please Call
By ANDY BOROWITZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/opinion/01BORO.html


New York Times 03/02/02
Worker Accused of Selling
Colleagues' ID's Online
By JACOB H. FRIES
former employee of the Prudential Insurance Company was arrested yesterday and charged with stealing the identities of colleagues from a database containing 60,000 names and selling some of them over the Internet as part of a credit card scam, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn announced.
While working in the tax department at Prudential, the former employee, Donald Matthew McNeese of Callahan, Fla., stole the database of personnel records, making it one of the largest potential identity-theft cases ever, said Jim Walden, the assistant United States attorney prosecuting the case for the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Walden
would not specify how many people had money stolen in the scam.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/technology/02INTE.html


New York Times 03/02/02
Burning Diesel Is Cited in Fall of 3rd Tower
By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON
Massive structural beams that functioned as a sort of bridge to hold up the 47-story skyscraper known as 7 World Trade Center were compromised in a disastrous blaze fed by diesel fuel, leading to the building's collapse on Sept. 11, investigators have concluded in a preliminary report.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/nyregion/02TOWE.html?pagewanted=allposition=top







Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va