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wtc 7
Posted by ro on March 15th at 4:38pm in in the news

at 5 30 pm
9 11 2001
wtc7 collapsed

for the third time in history
fire brought down a steel building
reducing it to rubble

hold on folks
here we go

• The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse was impossible.
• Silverstein said to the fire department commander “the smartest thing to do is pull it.”
• Firefighters withdrawing from the area stated the building was going to “blow up”.
• The roof of WTC 7 visibly crumbled and the building collapsed perfectly into its
footprint.
• Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the debris.
[WTC 7] contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained
prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud, including Enron’s), US Secret Service,
Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank’s Salomon
Smith Barney, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and many other
financial institutions. [Online Journal]

The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were
destroyed [by the collapse of WTC 7]. Reuters news service and the Los Angeles Times
published reports estimating them at 3,000 to 4,000. They include the agency’s major
inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divvied up hot shares of initial public
offerings during the high-tech boom. …”Ongoing investigations at the New York SEC will be
dramatically affected because so much of their work is paper-intensive,” said Max
Berger of New York’s Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann. “This is a disaster
for these cases.” [New York Lawyer]

Citigroup says some information that the committee is seeking [about WorldCom] was
destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. Salomon had offices in
7 World Trade Center, one of the buildings that collapsed in the aftermath of the attack.
The bank says that back-up tapes of corporate emails from September 1998 through
December 2000 were stored at the building and destroyed in the attack. [TheStreet]

Inside [WTC 7 was] the US Secret Service’s largest field office with more than 200
employees. …”All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down
with the building,” according to US Secret Service Special Agent David Curran. [TechTV]

lets start here
ok…go slow
remember 2 breathe
use google

Read Rosie's blog entry here.