Posted on 10/29/2005 7:06:08 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
NEW YORK -- A security employee at John F. Kennedy International Airport was charged Thursday with stealing $80,000 in cash from a checked suitcase headed for Pakistan, the Queens district attorney's office said.
The Transportation Security Administration screener, Frank Ulerio, Jr., 23, allegedly stole the money when he was inspecting checked luggage on Oct. 7 in a Pakistan International Airlines area at the airport. Prosecutors said he stole the cash from the suitcase of a 45-year-old passenger from Astoria, Queens who was flying to Pakistan.
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$80K...in cash...going to Pakistan? Very curious,indeed!
The first question of course: who put $80K in a checked bag?
The real story was how easy it to move 80,000 large out out of the US and when caught get an apology.
Thought this might interest you.
The irony is that he probably thwarted resources getting into the hands of muslim terrorists intent to kill the very people he's paid to protect.
The real story was how easy it to move 80,000 large out out of the US and when caught get an apology.
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Where are you? Head in the sand?
It not illegal for a man to take this money with him crossing borders?
What are you nuts???
Maybe nothing came up in search because it's so old? Plus, last week the Mods said "search" gets 'funny' at times. Maybe it's acting up again.
Thanks for posting. I don't see it on FR either. I remember it on Drudge about a week ago.
It is if it's not delcared. Are you Nuts?
Given that it was destined for Pakistan,there's certainly no way it could have been for terrorists.
OK. Let's see. 80K, in a checked bag, going to OBL's playground. Did this send up any flags with anyone else?
Chump change compared to what gets sent to Mexico.
I wonder if the $80,000 was declared...?
Umm, do you cross the border much? At all? The signs are posted everywhere, you must declare all currency or monetary insturments over $10,000, coming AND going. It's been like that for a long time because of the WOD and later the WOT.
It not illegal for a man to take this money with him crossing borders?
If this guy's lawyer is smart,he'll use,as his defense, something like "my client knew that this was destined for Bin Laden.He seized it,thus helping to defend the world against terrorists,gave to friends for safe keeping,and was caught before he could turn it in to authorities.My client's guilty of bad judgment and nothing else".
Declared to who? I travel out of the country all the time and I don't recall ever being asked to declare a thing. Coming in you fill out and sign a form that states you have no more than 10,000 dollars in currency.
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