Weve been through things like this before and much worse. Im never surprised by the unmachl unmacu unmatched resiliency or city displays. Thank you also to the media for broadcasting the photos nypd released because it certainly helped workers around our city identify additional packages and helped move forward with this investigation. Thank you. Good afternoon, im jeff berman United States attorney for the Southern District of new york. Five days ago on october 22nd Law Enforcement recovered the first device from a residence of george soros. Over the last five days as more packages were found across the country delivered to former president s, Public Officials and public figures or Law Enforcement community, federal, state and local has worked day and night together with other prosecutors from my office to identify and apprehend the perpetrator that has now happened. Today my office has filed a complaint against caesar sayoc charging him with multiple crimes. Specifically the defendan
there are more. there s a public safety interest. i see these guys on tv getting arrested on the tv shows and they call for their lawyer and they re read their rights. does that are they going to try and squeeze him for whether there are any more bombs? well, i think they would be within their legal rights to try to find out whether there are any bombs. in a case that my office prosecuted, my former office, involving the underwear bomber, for example, there were questions asked of him for public safety purposes to ask him whether there were other bombs on other planes that were in the air, without giving him miranda warnings and advising him that he had a right to an attorney. and courtss held that was acceptable because of that public safety exception. i would think similar in this case they should ask him those questions and likely are and should ask him those questions. how many bombs did you send through the mail? how many more are there? to whom are they addressed to try to cent
when he said these are not hoax devices. so in other words in his estimation, they were not intended to be a fake or get everyone fired up about a potential explosive device. he s not calling them a hoax device. he s calling them an actual device. so the fingerprint that we found was on a package that was sent to congresswoman waters, and in addition to that going through my notes here from the press conference he did highlight there may be other packages in transit we have to keep an eye out for. we know 13 at the moment. 13 at the moment. the fbi director said there may be additional packages we have to look out for. u.s. attorney geof berman, five counts including illegal mailing of explosives and threatening a former u.s. president. as you said at the top of the show he faces up to 58 years in jail. but i think this is huge success story, frankly, because the idea