Gary Weiss, fired from BusinessWeek and currently Hachette Book Group author of "Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie," used his contacts with the Russian Mafiya to have my (Edward Manfredonia's) life threatened. Weiss wrote about me in "The American Stock Exchange: Scandal On Wall Street," the 26 April 1999 BusinessWeek cover story, which exposed violations of federal law at the American Stock Exchange. FBI Special Agent Art Amey, whom the FBI placed on the same floor of the building in which I reside and who wrote reports on me for the FBI, told me thatthe FBI knew the identity of the individuals involved in these death threats; but would not arrest them.

Several years later I received a note that Gary Weiss was behind these death threats because I had written about Weiss' contacts with the Russian Mafiya- including Weiss' cover up of the money laundering activities of Felix Sater, a felon who placed a broken glass into the eye of an individual, while Sater was employed at Bear Stearns.

But what incited Weiss was that I had exposed Weiss' lies about the murders of Al Chalem and Maier Lehmann. Weiss knew that Chalem and Lehmann had been murdered on the orders of Mike Vax, a convicted Russian killer. But because the Russian Mafiya and Maier Lehmann had infiltrated the offices of BusinessWeek via contacts between Feivel Gottlieb, a stock fraud artist at the American Stock Exchange and fraudster partner of Maier Lehmann in Lehmann's stock frauds, and Seymour Zucker, Weiss' editor at BusinessWeek, Weiss covered up the murders. Weiss lied and attributed the murders to the Italian Mafia.

Ergo, Weiss decided to have my life threatened to scare me.