The following is a January 28, 2009 Freedom of Information Act reply from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, within which they indicate that no responsive records were located pertaining to thousands of SEC investigative files reportedly destroyed on September 11, 2001 following the collapse of World Trade Center building 7.



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Mr. Monaghan,

I tried to reach you earlier by phone to discuss your message below. My supervisor, Mrs. Brenda Fuller would like to speak with you regarding your message. Please contact her at 202-XXX-XXXX.

Thank you,

Sonja Osborne

FOIA/PA Research Specialist

202-XXX-XXXX

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From: Aidan Monaghan [mailto:a_monaghan@cox.net]

Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:29 AM

To: Osborne, Sonja

Subject: Re: FOIA Request No. 09-00852

Dear Ms. Osbourne:

Because the SEC is unable to locate records responsive to the original request for FOIA records, the requester would like to modify the said original request.

I respectfully request copies of the following SEC records:

A bibliography of, copies of, or other records pertaining to investigation records once stored at the SEC offices once located within floors 11-13, of World Trade Center building 7 in New York City, New York.

Thank you for your consideration of this request. For reference, a publication describing the records in question is provided below.

Aidan Monaghan

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SEC & EEOC: Attack Delays Investigations

By Margaret Cronin Fisk

National Law Journal

September 17, 2001

Additional details emerged Friday about the effect of the collapse of 7 World Trade Center on investigations being conducted by the New York offices of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, both of which were housed in the building.

The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed. Reuters news service and the Los Angeles Times published reports estimating them at 3,000 to 4,000. They include the agency's major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divvied up hot shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/010917natllawjournal.WTC7SECfiles

----- Original Message -----

From: Osborne, Sonja

To: a_monaghan@cox.net

Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:42 PM

Subject: FOIA Request No. 09-00852

<<09-00852 Final Response.pdf>>



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----- Original Message -----

From: Aidan Monaghan

To: foiapa@sec.gov

Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:29 AM

Subject: FOIA Request

Securities and Exchange Commission

Office of FOIA and Privacy Act Operations

100 F Street, NE

Washington, DC 20549-5100

Re: Freedom of Information Act Request

To Whom it Concerns:

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

I respectfully request the following SEC records:

- A reasonably segregable bibliography of investigation records stored at the SEC offices once located within floors 11-13, of World Trade Center building 7 in New York City, NewYork.

Disclosure of the requested information to me is not in my commercial interest.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.