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This FBI Pittsburgh field-office file concerns a 2012 extortion scheme targeting coal executive Christopher Cline. The investigation was opened July 3, 2012, after Cline received a USPS Priority Mail letter labeled 'Extortion Notice' demanding $13 million and threatening harm to a redacted member of his family if payment was not made. The records include the opening electronic communication, fingerprint evidence documentation, laboratory acknowledgment material, and evidence logs for extortion notices, a draft notice, wiring instructions, and mailing envelopes. Investigators connected similar letters to victims in the Los Angeles and New York areas and examined prepaid-card, mailbox-rental, postal, surveillance, and internet-record leads, including use of an anonymizing proxy service.

FBI file number: 196D-PG-2332987 | Documents span: 2012 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Christopher Cline
Subjects: extortion, mail fraud, wire fraud, threats, postal evidence, FBI investigation