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by: bruce bowser - Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:23 UTC

On Monday, April 22, 2002 at 12:10:57 PM UTC-4, Bill Schnakenberg wrote:
> Richard Fontana wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Joe Manfre wrote:
> >
> > > AP sent this out earlier today. Seems to give somebody's idea of what
> > > the Northeast is. I wonder: Is this the FBI's idea of "Northeast" --
> > > i.e., somebody said 'we're threatening Northeastern banks!' and the FBI
> > > decided these were the states to warn -- or did the FBI just list a
> > > bunch of states and the AP decided this was the Northeast region?
> > >
> > > > *Feds Received Threats Against Banks
> > > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI, acting with "an abundance of
> > > >caution," said today that officials had received unsubstantiated
> > > >information that terrorists were considering attacks against U.S.
> > > >banks in the Northeast. Authorities cautioned that they had no
> > > >information about specific plot or threats to any specific financial
> > > >institution. However, they issued ublic warning to banks and law
> > > >enforcement in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York,
> > > >New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine,
> > > >Vermont, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia.
> > >
> > > I can think of reasons to suspect the former hypothesis of mine above,
> > > but nothing absotively definilute.
> >
> > It is curious. I mean, we always knew that *someday* Virginia was
> > going to be considered Northeastern, but I didn't think we were there
> > yet. It's really only the inclusion of Virginia that's problematic for
> > me.
>
> It's been a long time since I have had to send any FBI NCIC (National
> Crime Information Center) messages, but the NCIC separates US states
> into regional sectors with 2 letter codes, such as, AB, AC, etc. This
> made it easier to include a bunch of states and jurisdictions in a
> Missing person, Wanted person, or Temporary Felony Want message's
> destination field without having to name each state in the destination
> field.

It turns out that Long Island, NY newspaper actually reported on George Santos' financial scams BEFORE the 2022 election:

Long Island
-- https://www.longisland.com/news/12-30-22/george-santos-story-broke-by-local-li-newspaper-months-ago.html

There is no statute of limitations on stupidity.

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