Whenever I see ‘reports’ whether in news/tabloid media or official reports, I remind myself never to take anything at face value.
There are ‘reports’ that NYPD seized the Weiner laptop. Here is one:
http://www.brainstain.co.uk/2018/05/22/search-warrant-anthony-weiner-laptop-unsealed
“The New York City Police obtained a search warrant on his laptop, iPad and iPhone, on September 26th, 2016, approved by Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis.”
This report of an NYPD warrant is dated ostensibly before the FBI warrant application because NYPD was on the case first. If you’re so inclined, you can research this through City Judge Ellis. But if I were following it I would not be surprised to find access is still blocked.
As for the FBI warrant, I would immediately tell myself a timeline is essential. The dates of the warrant application that you linked to come after NYPD is engaged as well as several other special NYPD investigators as well as SDNY US Attorney Preet Bharara. Your Scribd link calls it an ‘FBI’ warrant to examine a laptop at an FBI office. This should seem odd to you.
As for the ‘housing’ of the laptop at FBI offices in NYC, that is not surprising as a US Attorney and the FBI in this aspect are investigating emails, not sexting with a minor.
How to reconcile the location of the laptop. Your eyes read the search warrant of the laptop housed at FBI offices in NYC. My eyes read the same. Our eyes are not lying. What we need to remind ourselves of is we were not there, we don’t know of all the movements.
If someone were to ask me, where could the laptop be if not FBI offices, I would respond “I don’t know”. If I were pressed further to come up with a plausible explanation for the disconnect, I would say physical custody is with NYPD, transported temporarily to FBI offices in NYC in response to an order signed by a judge (search warrant).
thanks.
That same story is here, using the exact same phrase as brainstain only 3 days earlier. ( with more “history” provided) : https://www.theepochtimes.com/search-warrant-for-anthony-weiners-laptop-unsealed_2529665.html.
Just a story...no proof it was NYPD who requested the warrant.
I have an email in to the author of the epochtimes asking for info.
I have an email into brainstain asking for info
There is no author specified in your article.
theepochtimes is a China outfit.
brainstain is a uk outfit.
Would they be versed in U.S. jurisdiction ?
do a duckduckgo search on “The New York City Police obtained a search warrant on his laptop, iPad and iPhone, on September 26th, 2016, approved by Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis”
results are mostly nobody we ever heard of and no I wont chase them all down.
Again, I’m looking for proof based on documentation, not conjecture.
The September 26th, 2016 warrant is a Fed warrant.
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Judge Ronald L Ellis is a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, not a city judge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_L._Ellis
Only Fed law is cited in the warrant, not local or state.
The warrant was unsealed by a U.S. District Judge. https://onsizzle.com/i/case-1-17-cr-00307-dlc-document-54-filed-o-usdc-sdny-document-electronically-21906115
No mention of NYPD applying for this Fed warrant.
Actually, no mention of exactly who applied for the warrant. No affidavit is attached.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4465430-WEINER-Search-Warrant-2016.html#document/
Can NYPD apply for a fed warrant ?
Would NYPD apply for a fed warrant ?
Would the Feds issue a Fed warrant to the city of NYPD ?
We know Granite Intelligence had the devices as of 09/26/2016.
Generally reported that Weiner turned them in to them on 09/23/2016.
We know that the Feds had the laptop at least on 10/30/2016.
So the question is: When did Granite Intelligence turn over the devices and to who (whom).
Which is my next Moby Dick.
thanks
later
fyi...I think we went down this road before...
The warrant was issued for the devices stored at Granite Intelligence, per attachment “A” of the warrant.
The IG report says the FBI got the devices on the day the warrant was issued - 09/26/2016.
I can live with the IG report on this, for now.
I’ll probably send and email to Granite for chuckles and grins without any expectations\acknowledgement.
So now, did the devices go anywhere out of Fed custody between 09/26/2016 and 10/30/2016 ?
Did it stay in Fed custody but they allowed other LEOs to look at it ?
something to chase some other time.
I am done for now.