Goldman Sachs - the next target?

You know Dinah used to have a life on Wall Street so you can imagine how her Islam-o-radar went off upon reading this post by Watcher over at Eye on the World.

It became a two alarm Islam-o-alert in the comments section over at MNM where herroyalwhyness brought up those dastardly Muslims, the Islamic Thinkers Society (hah - as if). Those dirtbags in NYC that went to town on a US flag - stomping all up on it and then setting it alight. Grrr. Don't watch it if you don't want your blood pressure to go up. Mine does just thinking about it.




A version of Goldman's response from Mayor Mike's cash cow, Bloomberg News. (And yes, once upon a time I worked with Mike Bloomberg.) Disgruntled employees and customers are being checked first, extremist groups of unmentioned religions, I guess that will be whenever they get around to it...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the world's biggest securities firm, said law-enforcement authorities don't consider letters making threats against the company to be credible.

About 20 letters were sent to different newspapers on or around June 27, said Thomas Boyle, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspectors in New York. The letters say that ``hundreds will die'' and ``we have people inside Goldman Sachs,'' he said.

``We are working closely with the law-enforcement authorities, who tell us they don't believe the threat to be very credible,'' Michael DuVally, a Goldman spokesman in New York, said in an e-mailed statement.

``We take any threat to the safety of our people very seriously.''

A team of postal inspectors is working with Goldman Sachs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Force to try to identify who sent the letters, Boyle said.

Authorities don't know whether they are terror-related or come from someone with a direct connection to the firm.

Text of entire company response here.


Goldman - Downtown NYC

Oddly enough, Goldman did not receive the letters. Where the letters were sent:

The letters were sent to newspapers in areas including Seattle; Boise, Idaho; Corpus Christi, Texas; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Bayonne and Newark, N.J.; and cities in Vermont, Ohio and North Dakota. The Star-Ledger of Newark is the largest newspaper to have received one of the letters; theirs was postmarked June 27.

The newspapers notified 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 the newspapers that received the threatening letters have been targeted.

Goldman Sachs did not receive any of the threatening letters, Boyle said.

The copy of the letter is from CNN.