Thursday, February 19, 2004

debunked: profiteering on WTC attacks

Just stumbled over this underreported item ...

September 19, 2003


Somewhere out there are hedge funds or individual investors who profited from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But they had no foreknowledge of the catastrophes, an FBI spokesman said Thursday.

Spokesman Ed Cogswell said the FBI has closed its investigation of stock and option trading that took place days before the attacks. He said the investigation turned up "absolutely no evidence'' of anyone with inside knowledge of what would happen.

www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-fin-fbi19.html

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