FBI New York records loss in Hurricane Sandy (2012)

CTL-E-4273 · Event · other · 2012

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Flooding of FBI facilities in New York during Hurricane Sandy (2012) caused a 'huge and still unquantifiable loss of records' — an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 cardboard boxes of investigation and case records spanning at least two decades.

Notes

RELP98 identity check: no such event entity in graph; unique.

Relationships

Lost Organizational Records — related to
Hurricane Sandy's destruction of 8,000–9,000 boxes of FBI New York records is a disaster-loss instance of the lost-organizational-records pattern.

Sources

Reason - '50,000 FOIA Requests You'll Never Be Able to Make From the FBI' (2014-08-06, MuckRock findings)

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