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E-Mails: Marzano's vs the Feds

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Valas
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E-Mails: Marzano's vs the Feds

Something we've been cooking up over at CD.
Elder of Zion requested that you guys be notified.

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Subject: Informal notification

Dear Sir/Madam,

It's recently come to my attention that you gentlemen have acquired an interest in an acquantance of mine by the name of Mr. Dale Sprague.

It would be most beneficial to yourselves and your organization, if nothing untoward were to occur to Mr. Sprague. The Bureau has this habit of looking out for those,who have proven to be beneficial for our investigations.

Mr. Sprague has earned this distinction when he helped us track and apprehend certain Nigerian "businessmen".

Consider yourself placed under notice.

Signed,

Jeremy Denauer
JAD and Associates

PS: You do not wish to have a formal notification regarding this case. Trust me on this. Not unless you enjoy being auditted and placed under 24/7 surveilance. Just a piece of friendly advice.

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Mr Denauer.
I'm very confused by this email. What Bureau are you speaking about? Who is JAD and Associates (according to google, it is a business consulting firm in Ohio). You are not the first person to contact this restaurant about Mr. Sprague. Our only knowledge of this man is that he used to work with our website developer, Bruce Abbott. May I suggest that you contact him at babbottSPLATanonymousfame.com for any further inquiries?

Angie

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:46 pm

Valas
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Dear Miss./Mrs. Angie

Allow me to shed some light on my previous correspondendence with you.

The Bureau would be the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of which I am a "former" member. I'm currently on a sabbatical year, dealing with a missing person case, though by the looks of it, that designation may have to be changed to kidnapping.

JAD and Associates is the private consultation firm run by myself and my associates. We tend to specialize in web-based crime, although we are not completely unfamiliar with investigating Doomsday cults and like-minded organizations. My compliments of thinking to find us on the Web. We prefer mouth to mouth advertising however, and considering that we are one of the few organizations in this field, we find that this more than suffices.

With regards to our previous correspondence to your company and the reasons behind them. Marzano Enterprises is listed as being the owner of your establishment, said company's name has also appeared in official materials prior to my sabbatical year.

Please advise the Don, that the activities of his Family are under observation, and that it would be most unfortunate if said observations had to be increased, due to a failure in communication and understanding.

Lastly, it would be most appreciated if you informed the Don, that the USA PATRIOT Act would definitely come into play in such a formal investigation, and not it is not solely limited for use against terrorist threats.

I hope that this response has answered all your questions.

Respectfully,

Jeremy Denauer
JAD and Associate

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Mr Denauer.

I'm afraid you might have the wrong names in your investigation. My Uncle Don has owned this restaurant for many years. This is his primary business. If you are referring to any trouble makers, that would probably be my cousins, Sal and Marco. Those dimwits are always making a mess of things. When I was on vacation, Sal got into the computer
and started answering emails with some crazy ideas that looked like money-making schemes. Marco messed up the payroll and we almost lost our chef. Last time Frank let them host the theme night, well, we were
lucky no one tried to sue us. If you want to talk to them, they will be out of
town this week, said they were going to some dinky town in the middle of the state. Have fun chasing them down. Terrorist threats? All of us were born in this country and are legal & loyal US citizens. In this time of war and after what happened in NYC, I find that comment to be abhorant and downright slander. I would like the name and contact number of your FBI supervisor.

Sincerely.
Angie Shapiro

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:50 pm

Valas
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Dear Miss Shapiro,

My apologies for the tardy response to your last reply. My Bobe Sara was admitted to the hospital last week, due to a mild heart attack. I was unable to find the time to access my account.

However, let us return to the business at hand. It seems that several misconceptions have arisen again. I shall attempt once more to resolve them, for this I beg your indulgence.

I am quite aware of your uncle's position. I must also point out though, that as the nominal head of Marzano Enterprises (the restaurant being, but one of the businesses owned by said corporation), any wrong doings by his employees would reflect back upon him. In addition, I somehow get the impression that you chose not to inform him of our correspondences. A most unfortunate oversight on your part, I fear. For there is a storm coming, and as most examples of nature's, or dare I even say, God's
wrath, it will be indiscriminate in causing harm to those who might not deserve it.

You also seem to be under the impression, that I am involved in an investigation which concerns itself with your family. You might wish to reexamine our previous exchanges. I am currently working on a missing person/kidnapping case in NY, I am merely serving as a messenger between certain interested people within the Bureau and your own family. I regret that the messages I passed on were not heeded, I truly
do. What will follow will effect too many hardworking, well meaning bystanders.

There also seems some miscommunication as to what I meant when I referenced to the USA Patriot Act. I did not in any way infer that the Marzano family is involved in activities of a terrorist nature (however, libel would not apply in this case, due to the private nature of our correspondence), though I am afraid that, I must point out that section
802a, 5a might be deemed applicable by a more rigid and zealot like investigator of which our Bureau has a number (unfortunately). I merely wished to point out that, say the various sections found in Title III, subtitle B would be deemed applicable when investigating organized crime. And no, I am not trying to suggest that your family is involved with such "business", it is merely an example of the extension of the Bureau's power.

The following link might better explain how profound the changes have been.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/01/BU3945.DTL

The SAC to whom I still report, would be William Chase.
You may reach him at XXX-XXX-XXXX, during regular business hours.
The regular phone lines of the office are being upgraded this week though, so I fear that you'll only be able to reach him under this number.

Respectfully,

Jeremy Denauer
JAD and Associates

PS: FYI, Mr. Sprague's house was the target of an arson attack, on 04-03-2003. I've..... been forwarded certain things by those in the know back at the Bureau.... But you may wish to talk with SAC Chase first.

Nisht do gedachtet.

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Mr Denauer,

So, your boss acknowledges you do/have, or whatever, work for the FBI, and that you "may" (I inserted those quotes) seen some members of this business at the scene where a crime "may" have occurred. I am cc: this to him.

Why are you bothering me with email?

If those numbnuts have committed some crime, go arrest them (not like they haven't been in trouble with the law before). Again, I am just working for my uncle (who is a law abiding citizen) at his restaurant. This is an eating establishment with music and dancing. Period. Despite the rash of strange emails (and yours has been part of that) this past month, we are just a restaurant. So sue us over the name - it was a homage back to the prohibition era and the stereotypes of Italians back in the 20's (and most people thought it funny back when we opened). That was how it was decorated back then. They did a renovation and modification when Frank started running things, but kept the name because of their loyal customers (didn't want them to think it had been sold). I only started working here last year.

I can assure you that our books and accounts receiveable/payable are fully legite and up-to-date. I did take 2 semesters of accounting in college so Uncle Don asked me to do billing and payroll (except for when I was on vacation and Marco "tried" to do it and our chef almost quit because of some stupid error in his paycheck) and our accountant reviews everything monthly.

As for Mr. Sprague - why are people bothering me about this person? The only thing I know about a Mr. Sprague is that he used to work with Bruce Abbott (our website designer / engineer). I even asked Bruce about Mr. Sprague the other evening and he hasn't seen him for over a month. He did mentioned something about his friend going to a mental hospital after his family died in a tragic accident. That's all I know about Mr. Sprague. And if you or the FBI are behind all the other ridiculous emails asking about Mr. Sprague, you can tell them to stop. I've never met this person.

Thank you.
Angie Shapiro

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 6:05 pm

Valas
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OK, -- the game is afoot. Angie called me late this afternoon. I will admit,
it took me a minute to recover. She called to complain about your 'harassment'

(you're a bad, bad, man, Jeremy . . .) -- and is focusing on the fact that you've mentioned you're on sabbatical. I told her to forward her most recent contact with you to my personal email. Who knows if she will actually have copied it down correctly -- we'll find out later.

P.S. -- Angie sounds like a pleasant young woman -- she even had a touch of the appropriate accent you'd expect from a New Jersey Shapiro. ( Look out, Bruce ... she's a live wire . . .)

Elder

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Mr Chase, FBI
As per our conversation of Wednesday, April 9th, here are the emails from your suppose agent, Jeremy Denauer. So when do FBI agents need free netmail accounts (i.e. hotmail)??

In fact, in the past month we have received quite a number of strange emails and phone calls, alluding to business practices other than what we are, a restaurant with musical entertainment and dancing. Perhaps these have also been rogue agents, trying to fish out something that doesn't exist? Please cc: me when you respond to your "agent". If I continue to be harassed in such a manner, you will be hearing from our lawyer.

Thank you.
Angie Shapiro

We're still working on a follow-up

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 6:09 pm

Valas
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Follow-up will be posted once we get a response from her.

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:07 am

Valas
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Dear Ms. Shapiro:

I would not recommend that you inform your company's attorney concerning the
messages you have been receiving. I might suggest that you may want to
consult an attorney on your own, however. When you read this email in its
entirety, I strongly encourage you to do so when you are alone -- and you
may want to delete any evidence of this text when you are done.

In strict Departmental terms, the only thing I should be saying to you about
all of this is a complete "No Comment". However, having spoken with you the
other day, I formed the impression that you appear to be exactly as you
claim -- an innocent employee. It is unfortunately distinctly less likely
that the restaurant you work for is also a completely innocent enterprise.
Nonetheless, your restaurant is not currently the subject of any active
investigation or surveillance. The following is really all that I can tell
you about what is actually going on.

In the wake of 9/11, all of our nation's preconceptions about security have
come into question. As we examined what happened prior to those events, we
learned that our agencies were not coordinating with one another well. More
significantly, we learned that we were not doing enough to actively seek
out and eliminate possible threats to U.S. interests BEFORE they had time to
act. The net effect has been the creation of a number of multi-agency task
forces. These task forces often are charged with investigating potential
threats that would fall outside the normal charter of their respective
agencies. As a result, these agents essentially go 'off the books' from
their normal assignments, so that we can maintain proper deniability. They
use public domain facilities, and must act without the protection of their
normal government badge. The men and women who accept such assignments are
quite brave and patriotic, and we are all in their debt. Mr. Denauer is
working on one such case, while several other agents (who I am not at
liberty to name) are working on the matter that your family has become
entangled with.

I apologize if some or all of the above sounds confusing. Let it suffice to
say that there is an on-going investigation of a group of potential
terrorists, and their interactions with a certain individual from a small
town in New Jersey. This investigation includes personal and video
surveillance, phone and email wiretaps, all of which have received all the
necessary legal authorizations. For several weeks, members of the Marzano
family have been interacting with this individual under surveillance in a
suspicious manner.

These events culminated on April 3-4. During this two day period, the same
members of the Marzano family visited this town, and engaged in a number of
illegal activities. The physical evidence of their involvement is
substantial and incontravertible. If we wished to, we could seek and obtain
indictments against them now. However, as I have stated before, your cousins
are not the target of this investigation, and are considered to represent a
much lesser threat than this other group. Since arresting your cousins might
compromise the rest of the investigation, we are inclined at this point to
allow events to run their course. HOWEVER, THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH THE
INDIVIDUAL UNDER SURVEILLANCE MUST CEASE IMMEDIATELY. This past incident has
already resulted in a fire that destroyed his home, destroying thousands of
dollars of government equipment in the process, and causing us to
momentarily lose the subject of our surveillance. If they should interfere
again, the FBI and its sister agencies will have no choice but to turn our
full attentions to the activities of the Marzano family. And should that
occur, nothing and nobody they come in contact with will be out of bounds.

What does all this have to do with you? Well, Ms. Shapiro, now you are in
possession of enough of the facts to understand what is going on. We need
SOMEBODY to get the highlighted message above to the brothers Marzano, loud
and clear. If that someone is you, you should do so at once. If you don't
have that kind of influence, find someone who does. You do not want to
create a situation which would force an agent like Jerry Denauer to be
pulled off his present case and reassigned to this one. Jerry is a bulldog,
about as subtle as a lead pipe and just as unyielding. The missing persons
case that he is presently working on has become very personal to him, and if
he is yanked off it due to your cousins' continued interference, he will not
rest until he finds every guilty secret they've ever had. And he will not
care who else is hurt in the process.

Is this an overwhelming burden to place on a young lady like yourself?
Unquestionably. But this other matter is considered of the utmost importance
to our nation, and the free world. If you are the law abiding citizen that
you say you are and I believe you to be, you will find a way to help us --
and yourself in the process.

William K. Chase
FBI Section Chief
New England Region

P.S. -- For the same security reasons that were outlined above, the
cellphone number that you used to contact me previously is no longer in
service -- Mr. Denauer committed a breach of security by giving it out in
the first place. You can continue to reach me by email at this address for
the time being, if you have anything concrete to add to the investigation.
Again, I am sorry that individuals like you have to become involved in
matters this complex -- but the problem is real, and your involvement is
unavoidable. Should you elect to do nothing now that you know what you know,
you run the real risk of being labeled as a conspirator after the fact --
and that is not something you want to take lightly. -- WKC

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:26 pm

Valas
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> Dear Miss Shapiro,
>
> Well, that was interesting.. I just got back from DC, big meeting. You'd
> think that with the reduction in threat level from orange to yellow that
> things would quiet down. The exact opposite, we had representatives
> from the DOJ, DOD and DOHD running around the Hoover building like
> headless chickens.

> Seems that your cousins have stirred up quite the hornet's nest. (More
> on that later.)

> Now as for why am I bothering you with e-mails?? I'm rather hoping that
> you will help us with some serious damage control here. Before hand I
> was just the messenger, but it's beginning to look like they'll rescind
> my sabbatical and pull me off of my current case. Regardless of the fact
> that the longer the victim remains in their hands, the more likely it is
> that the Stockholm Syndrome will kick in. And that's the last thing we
> need.. In addition, solving this kidnap case is the only way for a now
> deceased Agency field officer to get his star on the Wall. They are
> currently ruling his death an accident, which it was not, not by a long
> shot.

> I'm quite willing to accept that you have no influence whatsoever over
> your cousins, now your uncle Frank, and more importantly your
> grand-uncle are another matter.

> Tell them about our little conversations and make it very clear to them,
> that it is IMPERATIVE that Sal and Marco back off from Dale Sprague. Tell

> them that we know of their latest trip to Aglaura, that we know about
> their meeting. And that it stops NOW.

> The surveillance video we have, which features your "numbnuts".
> It shows that, they've had an altercation with an unidentified third party
> at the Sprague house. This group, well let's just say that they've
> managed to cause the brass to get their panties in a twist. They broke
> into a classified government facility, and the DOD isn't very willing to
> share what they had stashed there, but considering all, the hubbub it's
> not going to be pretty.

> (And yes, I'm not supposed to tell you this, but it might be wiser if you

> knew what you've been dragged into.)
>
> For some reason, this unidentified group is after Mr. Sprague as well,
> so what started out as a simple protect our resources warning has
> turned into a matter of national security.

> The following is hardly an official offer, but knowing the brass it's one

> they'll find acceptable.
> - Full immunity for yourself, Don Marzano and with some hard
> bargaining Frank Marzano, for agreeing to testify.
> - Entry into the Witness Protection Program, for all three involved (it's

> definitely possible that other members of your family can also be
> entered, say like your mother and father, in case Sal or Marco were to
> make threats with regards to their safety.)
> - Sal and Marco will have to serve a prison term of 20 to life.

> Charges include Section 1111 (2 counts), Section 1113, Section 1959,
> Section 1962, Section 201 and Section 666, plus this is just off the top of
> my head.

> State officials, the guys at the ATF and the Treasury Department might
> also want to press charges.

> If you fail to convince either your Uncle Frank and or grand-uncle Don of

> the seriousness of this matter, then you might want to strenuously
> warn them that this could mean that members of your family be
> declared Enemy Combatants. It completely depends upon how nervous
> the brass gets, and from what I've seen, it's not looking pretty.

> Now since your curious about Mr. Sprague, allow me to give you some
> information on him. Technically, it's against the rules, but then it is
> important that we're both on the same page here. As, I mentioned in
> one of my earlier e-mails to you. Mr. Sprague proved himself quite
> useful in the tracking and apprehension of certain Nigerian
> "businessmen". Mr. Sprague signed a NDA upon finishing this case,
> this was back in 1994, prior to his involvement with Anonymous Fame.
> He was given a contact e-mail address in case something serious were
> to occur. According to the technicians, just prior to stay at the Klepsydra
> Mental Health Facility Network due to the effects of Post-Traumatic
> Stress Disorder, he sent out a rather confusing e-mail. It looks like he
> hit the wrong key and sent that e-mail to several people in his address
> book, not just his contact at the Bureau. It's more than likely that these
> people have been the ones bothering you, and several other people
> within the town of Aglaura as well. We're currently trying to
> contact them and asking them to cease and desist with their
> interference.

> Now as for what put Mr. Sprague into that mental facility.
> On February the 14th, he, his wife and his daughter Meaghan were
> involved in a lethal car crash. Unfortunately, it was not an accident.
> Witnesses reported seeing a construction vehicle leave the crime
> scene at high speed, said witnesses have since disappeared.
> The Federal CSI unit, which investigated the second car, which struck
> the Sprague vehicle, have found trace evidence confirming that there
> was a third vehicle present. Prior to his release from Klepsydra,
> two federal agents went into Mr. Sprague's home (we do have his
> permission to do these types of things.) and found his journal at a
> prearranged location. In this journal he notes that he had lent a
> significant amount of money from members of your family. He was
> unable to pay them back, and that was when the threats started (why he
> didn't notify the Bureau sooner is beyond me, only Mr. Sprague can
> answer that question.) Sal and Marco visited Mr. Sprague and his family
> on February the 1st, indicating that he has two weeks to pay, lest they
> take the loan out on his wife and child. As stated before, the "accident"
occurred on the 14th.

> Do the math.

> You might want to think long and hard, whether or not it is worth
> defending two men who could harm an 8 year old little girl, even if
> they're family.

> You might wish to think long and hard, where your allegiance lies with
> your family, or with your country, because Sal and Marco are
> endangering the latter with their stupidity. If the Bureau is unable to get
> this unidentified group (in my professional opinion, they look like a
> some form of doomsday cult), because of interference caused by
> them.. Well.. Things look very grim for your family then.

> Now it's quite possible to arrange everything nice and quietly, giving the

> Bureau the chance to go after these nutcases, or it can be done the hard
> way. Is it very fair of me to dump this all on your shoulders?? Nope, but
> then I'm just the messenger, as are you. Get the message across,
> convince them of the seriousness of this matter and then it might be
> wise to start praying that they make the right decision for all your
> sakes.

> Yours respectfully,

> Jeremy Denauer
> JAD and Associates
>
> P.S. � I can understand your frustration Miss Shapiro, what with all the
> strange e-mails and phone calls that you've received. With the rather
> unpleasant task of having to be around your cousins, who seem to have
> as much intelligence as they have taste in music, meaning none at all.
> I'm not your enemy, Miss Shapiro, least I don't think I am, so as a
> gesture of good will, just call me Jerry. Mr. Denauer just sounds so
> stuffy

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Mr Denauer.
I have shared your communcations with a good friend (and advisor) and we intend to discuss this issue with Don Marzano very shortly. Meanwhile, I've done what you suggested, and let Sal know that you are "watching" him. What he does after that is his business (and none of mine). You can reach Sal through his own email, SalSPLATSonsofdon.com

Sincerely,
Angie Shapiro

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:29 pm

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