Hermie
15th February 2011, 11:24 AM
http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-workers-admit-to-stealing-huge-amounts-of-cash-from-passengers.html
Homeland Security employs criminals and thugs to implement domestic police state
Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Feb 15, 2011
The revelation that TSA workers have admitted to stealing huge amounts of cash from passengers they singled out for enhanced security screening is far from an isolated incident, and underscores how armies of degenerates are being employed by the federal government to push around and dominate members of the public going about their daily business.
As reported in several mainstream media reports today, a TSA supervisor at the ironically titled Newark Liberty Airport has pleaded guilty in a federal court to multiple counts of theft, as well as admitting to taking bribes and kickbacks from another TSA worker to “look the other way”, while the agent he was supervising stole more money from travelers.
Michael Arato faces a maximum potential sentence of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for stealing up to $700 per day from passengers for eight years.
Arato also allowed another worker to steal up to $30,000 in cash from traveller’s bags over a 13-month period, pocketing a share of the ill gotten gains himself. The court heard that the pair specifically targeted foreign travelers, mostly Indian women, who could not speak English and discussed how they should not feel bad about stealing from them because they were leaving the U.S. with “our money”.
Arato was caught pocketing money on surveillance cameras last October when airport authorities began investigating complaints from passengers that their money and valuables were missing after their bags had been searched by the TSA.
In one incident, Arato allegedly took a wad of cash and “gave the middle finger to the office security camera”.
Sentencing will be passed in the case on May 24.
This is just the latest example of how TSA workers are prone to criminal behavior. It is certainly not an isolated incident.
More at link...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-workers-admit-to-stealing-huge-amounts-of-cash-from-passengers.html
Homeland Security employs criminals and thugs to implement domestic police state
Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Feb 15, 2011
The revelation that TSA workers have admitted to stealing huge amounts of cash from passengers they singled out for enhanced security screening is far from an isolated incident, and underscores how armies of degenerates are being employed by the federal government to push around and dominate members of the public going about their daily business.
As reported in several mainstream media reports today, a TSA supervisor at the ironically titled Newark Liberty Airport has pleaded guilty in a federal court to multiple counts of theft, as well as admitting to taking bribes and kickbacks from another TSA worker to “look the other way”, while the agent he was supervising stole more money from travelers.
Michael Arato faces a maximum potential sentence of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for stealing up to $700 per day from passengers for eight years.
Arato also allowed another worker to steal up to $30,000 in cash from traveller’s bags over a 13-month period, pocketing a share of the ill gotten gains himself. The court heard that the pair specifically targeted foreign travelers, mostly Indian women, who could not speak English and discussed how they should not feel bad about stealing from them because they were leaving the U.S. with “our money”.
Arato was caught pocketing money on surveillance cameras last October when airport authorities began investigating complaints from passengers that their money and valuables were missing after their bags had been searched by the TSA.
In one incident, Arato allegedly took a wad of cash and “gave the middle finger to the office security camera”.
Sentencing will be passed in the case on May 24.
This is just the latest example of how TSA workers are prone to criminal behavior. It is certainly not an isolated incident.
More at link...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-workers-admit-to-stealing-huge-amounts-of-cash-from-passengers.html