Date: 17 Sep 92 19:48:32 EDT
From: Gordon Meyer <72307.1502@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: File 5--News Blurbs (INSLAW & CITIBANK)

As reported in Information Week 9/14/92  pg 8

INSLAW:
The House Judiciary Committee is still looking into whether the
Justice Department stole and illegally copied a database management
program from Inslaw.  Last week 20 Democrats on the committee asked
the US Attorney General thirty days to appoint a special prosecutor or
explain why one isn't needed.

CITIBANK:
A New Zealand computer dealer, Paul White, tried to extort over
$90,000 dollars from Citibank by threatening to release confidential
files stored on 88 floppy disks.  White had obtained the disks after
purchasing some used computer equipment that Citibank had sold to a
clearinghouse.  Citibank obtained a court order against that release
of the data, and police seized 86 of the disks.  White turned over the
other two disks as part of a nearly $30,000 settlement.  The day after
turning over the remaining disks White died in a traffic accident.
News stories about the case indicated that the disks contained
incriminating information on Citibank customers, but Citibank claims
is was merely outdated administrative data.

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