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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (3247)6/5/2002 9:42:40 AM
From: PartyTime  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 12465
 
OK, SI sleuths, here's another one.

Someone posted the below link about Anthony Elgindy:

antiwar.com

From a link included in the above reference I found the following. The story appeared a local Floridian newspaper on May 16, 2002:

savannahnow.com

Peterson's court date was scheduled for June 4, 2002. Interested to note what happened, I searched the Savannah newspaper to find out what happened. Curiously, the name Derek Lawrence Peterson didn't come up in any of the searches, including the original article.

And do note, from a Google search, the name doesn't show anywhere, not in AP, not in Reuters, not in UPI, not in USA Today, The Washington Post, New York Times ... not anywhere. Except the below:

tmtmetropolis.ru

What's goin' on, folks?



To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (3247)6/5/2002 2:43:40 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12465
 
Re: 6/5/02 - [Elgindy] AP: Sept. 11 Probe Eyes Stock Trader

Sept. 11 Probe Eyes Stock Trader
Wed Jun 5, 1:05 AM ET

By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer

SAN DIEGO (AP) - An Egyptian-born financial analyst who prosecutors said may have had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks agreed Tuesday to be returned to New York to face charges of using confidential FBI (news - web sites) information to manipulate stock prices.


Amr I. "Tony" Elgindy will remain held without bond in San Diego until he is moved. A spokesman for the U.S. marshal's office would not say exactly when he would be moved.

Elgindy, 34, of Encinitas, waived his right to fight extradition at a brief hearing Tuesday. His attorney, Jeanne Knight, did not return a message seeking comment.

In a telephone interview from jail, Elgindy told the Los Angeles Times that the terrorist allegations were raised because "of my birthplace, my name, the color of my skin." He also said that all the material he used to focus on stocks was gathered through public sources.

Federal authorities arrested Elgindy last month on an indictment issued by a New York grand jury, charging him with insider trading, securities fraud, extortion and obstruction of justice.

He is accused of bribing an FBI agent to give him secrets from federal criminal databases and then using the information to make money in the stock market. A current and a former FBI agent were among four others charged in the conspiracy.

At a May 24 detention hearing in San Diego, a federal prosecutor said Elgindy may have known about the Sept. 11 attacks and tried to profit from them.

Elgindy telephoned his broker on Sept. 10, asked him to liquidate his children's $300,000 trust account, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Breen said. The defendant also made a comment that the Dow Jones industrial average, then trading at about 9,600, would drop to 3,000, Breen said.

"Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had pre-knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks," he said. "Instead of trying to report it, he tried to profit from it."

Breen said that Elgindy had $2 million invested in positions that would have benefited from a market collapse.

story.news.yahoo.com