{"id":178093,"date":"2018-10-23T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178093"},"modified":"2018-10-25T04:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T04:55:43","slug":"explosive-device-found-in-mailbox-at-george-soros-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178093","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Explosive device&#8217; found in mailbox at George Soros home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Reuters &#8212; Oct 23, 2018<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Soros-controls-EU-parliament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-160864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Soros-controls-EU-parliament-1024x611.jpg\" alt=\"Soros controls EU parliament\" width=\"540\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Soros-controls-EU-parliament.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Soros-controls-EU-parliament-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A package containing what appeared to be an explosive device has been found in a mailbox outside the New York state residence of billionaire financier <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/george-soros\">George Soros<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Soros, one of the world\u2019s biggest donors to liberal groups and causes, has become a hate figure for rightwing campaigners in the United States and eastern Europe, and the target of a hostile media campaign by the nationalist government in his native Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An employee at the home in Katonah, New York, opened the package on Monday, revealing what appeared to be an explosive device. Soros was not home at the time, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/22\/nyregion\/george-soros-explosive-device.html\">the New York Times reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Authorities were contacted at around 3.45pm, the Town of Bedford police department said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Bomb squad technicians detonated the package in a nearby wooded area, police told the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The FBI\u2019s <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York<\/a> field office said on Twitter that it was \u201cconducting an investigation at and around a residence in Bedford, NY. There is no threat to public safety, and we have no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Activists frequently post the addresses of homes Soros owns in Westchester County, north of New York City, on social media sometimes accompanied by derogatory remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A Hungarian government spokesman said: \u201cThe matter falls under the jurisdiction of US authorities. After all, the incident occurred there.\u201d He declined to comment further.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/oct\/23\/george-soros-explosive-device-found-in-mailbox-at-home\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Package containing what appeared to be explosive device found at billionaire&#8217;s New York state home <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":160864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-The_Oligarchs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178094,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178093\/revisions\/178094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}