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Are some teenagers behind those threatening letters to Goldman Sachs? The Daily News' John Marzulli received a four-page handwritten letter from the teens and their parents saying as much.
In June, some handwritten letters were sent to newspapers around the country, stating, "GOLDMAN SACHS. HUNDREDS WILL DIE. WE ARE INSIDE. YOU CANNOT STOP US." and signed A.Q.U.S.A. The letters were postmarked from Manhattan and Queens and received by local and community papers, but none of the U.S.'s top 10 papers. While officials did not believe the threats to be credible, the FBI had been investigating the matter because it's a federal crime to send threats through the U.S. mail.
The new letter, written in a style that looks very similar to the threat letter, claims that the teens were "misguided" and that one of their parents had a "financial beef" with Goldman Sachs. Here's an excerpt:
...We are now sitting here, six parents and three kids, scared out of our wits, since this idiotic, childish 'plot' unfortunately seems to have coincided with the horrendous events in England and Scotland and a renewal of fears of similar events in the U.S....While the FBI is not yet convinced that the new letter is truthful, the letter writers' mention of using furniture polish to remove fingerprints does sync with the FBI's tests....The kids mailed 20 letters in the Bronx and 50 more in Queens. We are not going to say if any of the three kids involved lives in those boroughs, because we are too scared - both the parents and the kids.
You can see all four pages here.
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I can't envision a single teenager alive who would hand write 70 separate letters without their parents breathing down their neck. I'm ashamed to say I could barely manage a thank-you note to my grandparents before I turned 25.
I don't know what's going on here, but I'm pretty sure this was not the youthful prank that the anonymous parents are making it out to be.
Hopefully everyone goes to jail for this. The kids for their fake terror plot, and the parents for their neglect and overall crappy parenting. How do kids get from the Bronx to Queens to Connecticut to Westchester to Long Island without their parents asking about it or stopping them?
The part about them mailing it to 70 different newspapers and only and handful of them (and none of the big ones) taking notice rings true, though. Makes more sense than that strange handful of papers being singled out on purpose.
Teenagers know how to write longhand?