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E-Mails to Gates Lead to Indictment
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October 15, 1999
E-Mails to Gates Lead to Indictment
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A teen-ager was indicted Friday on
extortion charges for allegedly threatening to bomb the headquarters
of IBM and Microsoft unless each company paid him $5 million.
The threats came in e-mails addressed to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
and IBM Chief Executive Officer Lou Gerstner.
If convicted on both counts, 18-year-old Jahair Joel Navarro of New
York could be sentenced to 40 years in prison. When he was first
arrested in August, he was charged with threatening to use a weapon of
mass destruction, which carries a penalty of life without parole.
No bombs were ever found, said FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette. But a
raid on the youth's apartment found literature on bomb-making and
terrorism that had been downloaded to his computer, the indictment
said.
Navarro, a Panamanian with permanent resident status, allegedly sent
the bomb threats in August to Gerstner at IBM headquarters in nearby
Armonk and to Gates at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
Navarro is to be arraigned Wednesday.
