Anthrax Contamination Stops Company’s Relocation

Two firms, one led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, will not move into the anthrax-contaminated American Media Inc. building in Florida, the New York Post reported yesterday (see GSN, June 10).

“Our headquarters will not be in the AMI building,” said Karen Cavanagh, chief operating officer for Bio-ONE.

Bio-ONE handled decontamination of the building, one of the sites contaminated by the 2001 anthrax mailings. However, 5 million tabloid photographs at the building could not be cleaned due to a dispute over ownership between photographers and the building’s owner.

The photographs remain contaminated, meaning the Boca Raton building could not be occupied, according to the Post.

The dispute was not resolved before a contract between Bio-ONE and the building’s owner expired at the end of May.

“The building is still quarantined,” Cavanagh said (Todd Venezia, New York Post/Yahoo!News, Aug. 17).

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