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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (3019)	5/22/2002 3:50:37 PM
From: Bear Down	Respond to of 12465

the databases are not open to the public in the interest of privacy. Not that the info is none of your business, just that you can't get it thru the FBI.

To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (3019)	5/22/2002 4:24:23 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 12465

Kevin, civil and criminal records are available via a variety of public sites. Only Tony knows why he needed to utilize the FBI database. The allegations of a kickback to an FBI agent and Elgindy's access to internal FBI information about his own investigation are what are most troubling to me. However, no matter how bad things look, I've learned to always wait to hear the "other side" of things before passing what, in this case, would amount to a harsh judgment. The case# is 02-CR-589 and the indictment is being unsealed as we speak. I expect the news organization will be quoting from it later today. The fact that Tony is of middle-eastern descent and the case involves FBI agents, for better or worse, may make this a bigger story than usual. - Jeff

To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (3019)	5/22/2002 5:38:22 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

Therein lies the biggest moral "iffiness" I have about the allegations. Personally, I don't have that much of a problem with "bad guy tactics" that're used to identify bad guys. While I've never thought of Anthony as a saint, I've never thought of him as 100% sinner, either. It's indisputable that he's done a lot of people a lot of good. Often by being the first or one of the first to expose a bad situation. Should it bother me that I don't care too much what his methods were so long as I approve of the end results in cases where he really identified scams in the making? That's how I feel right now, anyway. I just got back from a couple of days in hospital so am out of sorts and not able to really process the info, but my first take is "so what" on the allegations of being a bad guy to identify bad guys. That doesn't include profiting from that info, and it certainly doesn't include the FBI agent who accepted fees for delivering that info. The methods don't bother me anywhere near as much as the allegation of extorting shares from companies. I hope at least that part is proven untrue, as I just really don't want to believe he'd do something like that. It's the antithesis of everything he claims to stand for and that I believe he does.