"I want to make it clear that my son was no gangster or nothing like that, " he told The Associated Press.

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Mr. ELSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing like this at all, and that's because it's never happened before.

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But I have nothing -- no announcements to make or anything like that.

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No other information offered, no hello-how-are-you, nothing like that.

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Nothing like that could ever happen in Green Bay because no one could get rich off a sale.

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And there was no sense of urgency about it or anything like that, there was nothing.

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sought to reassure folks, saying nothing like Sandy's surge was expected and stressing that no evacuations were being ordered, as they were before the superstorm.

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Then again nothing generates hype like a horse race, and Ion Torrent has no qualms about pushing that envelope.

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Jackson said the blame has to be placed initially with BP because the company gave federal officials assurances over the years that nothing like this could ever happen, and there really was no contingency plan in case it did.

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