Giuliani Promises Cleanup at Site of First Anthrax Attack

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s consulting firm, along with the hazardous-waste cleanup company Sabre Technical Services, is preparing to disinfect the anthrax-infested American Media Inc. building in Florida, the Washington Times reported today (see GSN, April 23, 2002).

The 65,000-square-foot AMI building, former headquarters of the National Enquirer and the Sun, was abandoned in fall 2001 after an anthrax attack killed a Sun photo editor. The incident was the first in a series of still-unsolved anthrax attacks in New York, Washington and elsewhere that killed five people.

AMI sold the Boca Raton building to a real-estate investor. Giuliani and his associates are leasing the building and plan to use it as the headquarters for a new antiterrorism venture called Bio-One, which will offer emergency-preparedness and disaster cleanup expertise to companies. 

The AMI cleanup is expected to take months of preparation, but the disinfecting process itself could probably be completed in one day, according to the Times (Washington Times, Feb. 25).

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