Photos disappear amid AMI cleanup (anthrax)

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<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbcsouth/content/local_news/epaper/2006/03/24/s1d_ami_0324.html">www.palmbeachpost.com/pbc..._0324.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Photos disappear amid AMI cleanup<br><br>By Tania Valdemoro<br><br>Palm Beach Post Staff Writer<br><br>Friday, March 24, 2006<br><br>BOCA RATON — Elvis has left the building.<br><br>But where has he gone? That's the question tabloid photographers posed about the famous image of Elvis lying in his coffin as well as thousands of other images contaminated with anthrax at the former American Media Inc. building.<br><br> At the end of last year, MARCOR Remediation decontaminated anthrax from 8,500 wax-covered boxes and another 180 oversized boxes, all containing images, papers, employee mementos and office trash. Then, a "majority" of those boxes were incinerated, Palm Beach County Health Department spokesman Tim O'Connor said Thursday.<br><br>The remaining 600 to 800 "clean" boxes recently were removed from the former AMI building with the approval of the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been overseeing the cleanup, O'Connor said.<br><br>Health officials don't know where those boxes were taken. "We don't have anything to do with the personal property issue," he said.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

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<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Rudy Giuliani's company had the contract to clean the building, and wanted to destroy the photos. From last Nov 29:</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Bio-ONE, a firm led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, originally agreed to decontaminate the building. The firm said work was done there 16 months ago, but some photos stored at the site were not fully cleaned, according to the Sun.<br><br>Bio-ONE wanted to destroy the pictures. However, freelance photographers with rights to the pictures would not allow the photos to be incinerated. The firm and the building’s owner, David Rustine, could not agree on how the photographs should be dealt with.<br><br>...<br><br>MARCOR Remediation Inc., which was hired to clean the pictures, began work at the building yesterday, according to the Palm Beach County Health Department.<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://mmrs.fema.gov/news/influenza/2005/nov/nflu2005-11-30a.aspx">mmrs.fema.gov</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>