WTC 6
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/WTC6
Evidence destroyed:
KEY CRIME EVIDENCE IS BURIED
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn were tight-lipped about which cases or ongoing probes have been affected.
But sources told The Post they might include:
* Convicted thief Matthew “Scar” Allen of Brooklyn, charged by the feds in December 1999 with possessing a high-tech .45-caliber handgun that had a built-in laser sight.
A dispute between Allen and rapper Sean “Puffy” Combs sparked a shootout in a Manhattan nightclub around that time.
https://nypost.com/2001/10/04/key-crime-evidence-is-buried/
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WTC’S COLLAPSE LETS SOME LUCKY CROOKS BEAT RAP
Bags of evidence were saved from steel vaults in the Customs office in the WTC’s damaged Building 6. Other evidence was found a long way from Ground Zero.
The feds sifted guns, heroin and even kiddie porn at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island that could be traced to cases, sources said
https://nypost.com/2002/09/01/wtcs-collapse-lets-some-lucky-crooks-beat-rap/
Law Enforcement Lost Evidence in Rubble
Six World Trade Center housed several law enforcement agencies including U.S. Customs and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Somewhere in the rubble are safes containing guns, heroine, cocaine and ecstasy. Specifically, the ATF office had two gun vaults filled with not only ATF tactical weapons but also guns that were evidence in crimes.
The vaults may have been crushed with the evidence inside. If the evidence is not found intact, many of the cases may have to be dismissed.
-El Dorado task force
-Established in 1992 not long after the July 1991 BCCI bank shutdown in operation C-Chase...
-In August 2000, the El Dorado Task Force was recognized as the action team for the New York/New Jersey HIFCA (High Risk Money Laundering and Financial Crime Area). Since that time, the El Dorado Task Force has created a financial intelligence center that includes 40 individuals from various law enforcement and regulatory agencies.
https://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2001/011025/epf412.htm
Its not clear if any other cases beyond 'operation wire cutter' were affected by 9/11 or if all cases by the task force were resolved as a result of 9/11:
A massive drug probe, nearly ruined after the Customs Service office in the World Trade Center was destroyed, ended successfully yesterday when 37 suspects were rounded up in an international sweep.
Operation Wire Cutter was all but dead until the top Customs agent in New York was lowered into the WTC rubble by crane to retrieve lost evidence, officials said.
Months of work and evidence on the case was feared destroyed when the offices of the agency’s El Dorado Task Force in 6 World Trade Center were annihilated Sept. 11.
https://nypost.com/2002/01/17/evidence-pulled-from-wtc-ruins-bags-37-in-drug-case/
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Two NYT articles concerning WTC 6:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150527163414/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/17/nyregion/3-caught-in-a-sting-are-charged-with-laundering-8-million-in-drug-money.html-
Nearly a quarter of a mile below the spectacular vistas from the towers was their upside-down attic dropping 70 feet below the ground, a strange world with enough room for fortunes in gold and silver, for Godiva chocolates, assault weapons, old furniture, bricks of cocaine, phony taxicabs and Central Intelligence Agency files. With so many people still lost, the owners of this stuff have maintained a discreet silence during the recovery operations. But that doesn't mean they're not interested.
Beneath the Customs House -- 6 World Trade Center -- was an armada of government vehicles, including dozens owned by the Secret Service, in a fenced-off area. Within that area was a garage where a single armored limousine was parked under the tightest security.
The limousine was so long that it needed straight-line access to the street, because it could not clear tight corners in the basement.
That car had been used to carry heads of state visiting the city, said Tony Ball, a spokesman for the Secret Service. (The president's limousines are stored in Washington and flown everywhere he visitsIn the 1993 trade center bombing, an armored Secret Service limousine was parked about 100 feet from a truck bomb. Although the bomb crashed through five stories of concrete and the concussion destroyed cars all over that floor, the Secret Service limousine ''did not even have a broken windshield,'' according to a government official on the scene that day. The condition of the limousine after September's attack was not known yesterday. ''We haven't gotten anything back yet,'' Mr. Ball said.
Asked about reports that his agency also kept what looked like ordinary taxis and telephone company trucks in the basement, Mr. Ball laughed. ''What I would say is that it is not unusual for law enforcement agencies to have these kinds of things,'' he said.
Besides the Secret Service, the building named for the United States Customs Service also housed an office of the C.I.A.
That building is now partly collapsed, with a rubble pit 30 feet deep. Somewhere in there are drugs, weapons and contraband seized by the Customs Service at the region's airports. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also lost two evidence vaults, according to a spokesman for that agency, Joseph Green. They have not yet been recovered.
''There could be several hundred weapons -- somewhere between 200 and 400, ranging from small-caliber semiautomatic pistols to assault rifles,'' Mr. Green said, adding that a few of the guns had been found. Agents plan to be on the scene when the remains of the building are demolished sometime in the next two weeks, he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/nyregion/a-nation-challenged-the-vault-below-ground-zero-silver-and-gold.html
explosions:
-Kurt Sonnenfeld
Kurt Sonnenfeld (born December 18, 1962) is an American granted political asylum in Argentina after convincing former President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa [citation needed] and other high-ranking officials of the conspiracy theory that there had to have been foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks because, among other things, the massive gold vaults at World Trade Center 6 had already been opened and emptied of their contents before the attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Sonnenfeld
-Richard Andrew Grove:
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