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Any updates on the Deripaska FBI Raid? Any Treasure found? (Original Post) msfiddlestix Oct 2021 OP
If they are building a case against him or someone else, why blab about it? FSogol Oct 2021 #1
Are you kidding me? FBI loves to hold full court press msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #3
That's true when it comes to drugs, guns and sometimes child porn. fescuerescue Oct 2021 #11
Flynn, Roger Stone, Parnas, just a few raids that come to mind msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #13
How stupid would he have to be to leave anything damaging in his apartment? zaj Oct 2021 #2
Exactly. msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #6
Happens all the time. fescuerescue Oct 2021 #12
I Wonder How Severe 'The-Search' Really Was? wyn borkins Oct 2021 #4
The initial question I had was: why raid an empty house? msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #14
Did you give them your contact information? MineralMan Oct 2021 #5
🤣 spanone Oct 2021 #7
Seriously ? msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #8
You know nothing of my intelligence... MineralMan Oct 2021 #9
oky doky then. msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #10
A raid could trigger communications which could be monitored. Baked Potato Oct 2021 #15
Excellent point. msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #16

FSogol

(45,363 posts)
1. If they are building a case against him or someone else, why blab about it?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:32 AM
Oct 2021

This isn't an episode of Law and Order.

msfiddlestix

(7,266 posts)
3. Are you kidding me? FBI loves to hold full court press
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:43 AM
Oct 2021

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)
11. That's true when it comes to drugs, guns and sometimes child porn.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:17 AM
Oct 2021

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)
13. Flynn, Roger Stone, Parnas, just a few raids that come to mind
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:23 AM
Oct 2021

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)
2. How stupid would he have to be to leave anything damaging in his apartment?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:38 AM
Oct 2021

He's got unlimited funds. I can't imagine there's much damaging information lying around obvious places like his own apartment.

msfiddlestix

(7,266 posts)
6. Exactly.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:11 AM
Oct 2021

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)
12. Happens all the time.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:18 AM
Oct 2021

People feel safe in their home.

When they raided Epsteins apartment, they found tons and tons of stuff.

wyn borkins

(1,109 posts)
4. I Wonder How Severe 'The-Search' Really Was?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:52 AM
Oct 2021

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)
14. The initial question I had was: why raid an empty house?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:27 AM
Oct 2021


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)
5. Did you give them your contact information?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:07 AM
Oct 2021

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)
8. Seriously ?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:13 AM
Oct 2021

You've been around long enough to know touting that line is not worthy of your intelligence.

msfiddlestix

(7,266 posts)
16. Excellent point.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 02:13 PM
Oct 2021

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.



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