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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) (indicate page, name o! newspaper, city and state.) THE BUFFALO NEWS (Mount Cepping in Space Beiow) BUFFALO, NEW YORK Rutkowski Denies Receiving. Death-Threat' Letter. Tite: PUBLIC AFFAIRS MATTERS ss91-yb spokesman for Erie County Execu- Character: 'tive Rutkowski Wednesday said Mr. Rut- or kowski had not received a death-threat Cessitication: (80-2206 letter similar to those mailed to Sen. Al- Submitting Otfice. .fonse M. D'Amato, R-N.Y., and two U.S. BUFFALO Supreme Court justices.. Indexing: Local police sources Wednesday told The Buffalo News that Mr. Rutkowski had received an exact copy of the death- threat letter the other officials received. But Harry Spector, a Rutkowski aide said the county.executivenever receiv ed any such letter." He said Mr. Rut kowski's office checked with the FBI and that the bureau also had no Information about a threat against Mr. Rutkowski. .FBI officials' have confirmed that. Sen. D'Amato and Supreme Court Jus- tices Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell received death threats postmarked in Buffalo., FBI spokesman Bill Baker said agents interviewed people at the return. addresses found on the letters and tha! the FBI is "pretty well assured" the.?. I had not mailed the letters. Mr. Baker also said the FBI has not found any link" between the letters and a shooting incident at JusticeBlack- mun's apartment in Virginia. U.S. Attorney Salvatore R. Martoche said Wednesday that the Department of Justice gives high priority to arresting and prosecuting persons who are involy-. ed in threatening officials.n A suspect accused of. threatening a tfederal judge and other officials in Rochester was named in a sealed Indict) ment Tuesday by a federal grand jury i Buffalo, he pointed out. The case, not linked 'to the threats 9A1 68s-34 against the mayor, county executive, senator and judges, involves letters mailed to U.S. District Judge Michael A. Telesca and to a banker. The Indictment was made -public!. ' Wednesday when George F. Stroubridge,: 57, of Rochester was brought here for ar-: raignment before U.S. Magistrate Ed- mund F.Maxwell. b6 b7C