The secrecy surrounding Area 51 has been obsessive, even for the military, which does not like to acknowledge its existence, much less whether officers illegally handled hazardous waste.
Last year, Standard Chartered agreed to a combined $667 million in settlements with federal and state prosecutors in the United States related to charges that it had illegally handled money for Iranian banks and corporations.
In North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District, state officials are investigating whether a Republican voter-turnout operative and his employees manipulated, destroyed or illegally handled absentee ballots in Bladen County.
Mr Hofer was recently narrowly beaten by Alexander Van der Bellen, a Green Party-backed candidate, in a presidential election - but the vote was overturned a week ago after the Freedom Party (FPOe) argued that postal ballots were illegally handled in 94 out of 117 districts.
"It appears clear that hundreds of AV [absentee voter] ballot requests have been illegally handled, solicited from voters, and submitted to the clerk's office by a small number of individuals," says the August 1 letter.
He claimed that whosoever illegally handled the blue diamond would be cursed, a claim which resonated with a lot of Thais, many of whom wear protective amulets and prescribe to similar views of hexes and curses.
