Wall Street Under Siege
Under-performing money managers have long been under the gun...and usually clients express their displeasure by pulling the assets.
Sell-side analysts too, routinely received death threats earlier this decade as the bubble unwound.
But some wacko is taking things to a higher level:
Police: Suspicious Package Had No Explosives
Pipe Bomb Also Found In Kansas City
(AP) CHICAGO
A pipe bomb delivered to a Chicago investment company last week was accompanied by a letter directing the firm to invest in various stocks, sources said Friday.
Authorities said they are investigating any links to a similar device discovered Wednesday—along with a threatening note—at American Century Investment’s mail facility in Kansas City.
The Chicago package originally was delivered to Janus Capital Group Inc. in Denver, sources said. Janus forwarded the package to Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell & Co. in Chicago.
Chicago Police were called about 3 p.m. Thursday about the suspicious package in the company’s office at 311 South Wacker.
Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell handles certain business for Janus, officials said. A spokesman for the firm directed questions to Janus.
“Our chief concern is our employees,” said Janus spokesman Blair Johnson, adding that the company has been updating workers about the incident.
Johnson said he didn’t think the threat involved any problems with Janus’ performance.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service will analyze the device, the note and the package, officials said.
The bomb was constructed of plastic pipe filled with black powder, sources said. Wires protruded from the device, but there was no trigger to detonate it, sources said.
A letter accompanying the bomb cryptically referred to a February “stock rally.” The writer apparently wanted Janus, a mutual fund company, to invest in certain stocks. Authorities would not identify the stocks. Read more at CBS2 Chicago
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The letter was similar to another threatening note received at an American Century Companies Inc. mail facility in Kansas City on Jan 31. Investment News
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