NEW YORK — Authorities investigating white powder found in envelopes at The Wall Street Journal say similar mail was received at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts.
Police evacuated about 250 people from the newspaper’s offices Wednesday after about a dozen envelopes were found. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman James Margolin said five employees were decontaminated as a precaution.
A newspaper spokeswoman said the New York mail was addressed to several executives. The postmark was Knoxville, Tenn., but each letter had a different return address.
The FBI in Knoxville said another letter with powder and a Knoxville postmark was received at Harvard Law School, addressed to professor Alan Dershowitz. He recently published an opinion piece in The Journal defending Israel’s actions in Gaza.
