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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAny updates on the Deripaska FBI Raid? Any Treasure found?
Not seeing anything so far...
FSogol
(45,363 posts)This isn't an episode of Law and Order.
msfiddlestix
(7,266 posts)whenever a high profile subject is being pursued, or in this case apparently simply looking for
"treasure". That Raid was conducted in the presence of the Press and oh by the way, its operating procedure to report to the public why they're conducting a raid. Not always, but it isn't uncommon at all. Particularly a high profile individual of interest.
I'm as old as dirt, seen too many of these things on tv news over the decades, make that nearly a century. .
So please enough of this poppycock .
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)But when it's documents and electronic files.....not so much.
It's just that a pile of paperwork doesn't make for good photo shoots.
msfiddlestix
(7,266 posts)In recent years when boxes of documents, devices, and other paraphernalia would be reported out in real time by the FEDs or the Press while witnessing the raids. They may not give the actual details of the documents or content on devices, but they seized such items would reported.
zaj
(3,433 posts)He's got unlimited funds. I can't imagine there's much damaging information lying around obvious places like his own apartment.
Makes me speculate that yesterday's "raid" was a ruse of some sort. Perhaps a dog and pony show for the public, or a warning.
Don't know yet, probably will never know exactly why an empty apartment was "raided" when of course nothing would have been left there that could be used as evidence for anything he was involved in.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)People feel safe in their home.
When they raided Epsteins apartment, they found tons and tons of stuff.
wyn borkins
(1,109 posts)Did they open locked doors? Did they look into closets? Did they breach the 'safe' room? I wonder if they found those guns and secure ammunition hidden in the (toilet) water closets? Did they remove that double-locked safe in the basement? Did they look into those cardboard boxes labeled holiday decorations? And what of that singular pill shaped like a tooth (in the master bathroom) clearly marked as 'not cyanide'?
msfiddlestix
(7,266 posts)The dude hasn't occupied that home since at least 2019 or even earlier. This search was actually on the books for a number of years. Who believes anything of consequence would have been left there at this point? I don't.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)You have to do that, so they'll immediately notify you and send you an inventory of items seized in the raid. If they don't have that information, you'll have to wait for an official announcement, see...
msfiddlestix
(7,266 posts)You've been around long enough to know touting that line is not worthy of your intelligence.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,266 posts)I'll just leave it there.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)That could be treasure.
msfiddlestix
(7,266 posts)That would definitely be GOLD if that scheme worked.
A dangle here, a dangle there. whatever it takes to get them showing up on any number of cyber/digital or other avenues.
Makes sense.