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Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump. https://t.co/AuoNOxrDoQ

— Law360 (@Law360) March 24, 2023

The unsubstantiated threats, now under investigation by the New York Police Department and FBI, were emailed to local government officials at a Manhattan community board, according to police. They came from Russian email addresses in the early morning hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, listing government buildings and schools as the targets of alleged pipe bombs, according to the local board official who received them. 

"The FBI told me that they appear to be coming from Russia," said Susan Stetzer, district manager of Community Board 3, who read the emails to Law360 Friday. The board received four email threats over the three days, often sent from @mail.ru domains under different names, she said. The NYPD confirmed the board was the recipient of the original bomb threat on Tuesday.

“@mail.ru”? Are they even trying anymore? And if this:

Separately on Friday, a suspicious white powder was delivered to the offices of District Attorney Alvin Bragg in an envelope marked "Alvin," according to the NYPD. 

A spokesperson for the district attorney said that "it was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance." 

A police spokesperson could not say whether the envelope contained any message or information about its sender.

meets the legal standards for “terrorism,” well and good. But it’s not the blood ‘n’ thunder, death & destruction reign of terror we were led to expect.

So maybe we shouldn’t have expected it.

The air is escaping that balloon faster and faster.