Posted on 02/26/2008 11:08:58 AM PST by 1curiousmind
The FBI is investigating a Tennessee trucking company.
Agents from the FBI, Secret Service, Bureau of Immigration and Customs and several other agencies searched the Swift Transportation trucking company in Memphis on Monday.
Swift Transportation dispatches more than 500 trucks per day, transporting mainly for the United Parcel Service.
Employees said agents seized computers but authorities have not released what they were looking for.
"I haven't a clue,” said training driver James Richardson. “All I know is all of the training activities have been put on hold right now until an investigation is over...
(Excerpt) Read more at wkrn.com ...
FBI would be involved in any sort of interstate transit issues. I’m guessing it’ll be tax-related — withholdings for various states.
“I’m guessing it’ll be tax-related”
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Could be, but wouldn’t the IRS be involved as well?
They must all be there to give sensitivity training to the employees regarding prayer rugs and prayer time.....I don’t believe for one second Training Activities have been put on hold, even if the article did say so..../s
Beats me ... maybe not, though. It could be that they've established a widespread pattern of avoiding state taxes. All I'm really saying is, I think it's something a whole lot more mundane than terrorism.
I’m sitting one block from that joint right now. Didn’t see anything unusal there when I drove by going to work.
I don’t even want to know how you got that. Okay, I lied. I do.
Uhh, why can't they just take the hard drive and let the company make an image of it so that they can continue to operate their business???? Other than being heavy handed there really isn't a reason to seize a case, motherboard, processor, memory, dvd drive, etc..... if all they are looking for is the data stored on the HD.
Or are they no longer afforded the position of being innocent until proven guilty of something????
That’s true.
I’ve dealt with several not-so-SWIFT drivers (as I called them) in the past. They all seemed to be from either Pakistan or Somalia.
probably related to this:
White House policy targets those hiring illegal workers
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5563559.html
Reports are that I.C.E. is on the scene as well.Secret Service,ICE,ATF,US Marshalls,FMCSA,DOT OIG,FBI.That’s sounds like more than tax related.
Which reports? All I've seen is the sketchy report provided above.
You can learn a lot more from a hard drive than what's in the current set of files. There are ways of getting to the deleted stuff, even if it's been over-written.
“All I’m really saying is, I think it’s something a whole lot more mundane than terrorism.”
F.B.I., SECRET SERVICE, and BATFE are all involved in this with focus on the truck driver training school. It’s not taxes those organizations are concerned with. It will be something far more than mundane.
I was stationed at a driver training facility in 2006 in Fontana. Multiple muslims trained at the facility at the time. I minded my own business which was the Containeryard I was operating on the grounds of that facility. I did observe my associates in the driver training division were quite uneasy with the lot of those Muslim student drivers whom had an attitude problem. It was as though they all thought they were ‘SPECIAL’.
I’ll leave it at that.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/feb/25/fbi-targets-swift-driving-school-millington/
Also,I believe this has something to do with it.Note:Swift is a Phoenix Arizona based company,with business in Mexico as well.(Lid getting blown off of this one?)
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/105888
Hence my post asking why they don't just take the HD instead of the whole case, motherboard, processor, etc.... all of which do not store any data, ever. And if they gave the company 10 minutes they could image their drive, give the FBI the original so that they can perform all the data forensics to their heart's delight, and then place that drive image on a brand new HD, plop it into their computer, and not miss a beat.
Ah ... I didn’t understand your point, before. Sorry.
“Reports are that I.C.E. is on the scene as well.Secret Service,ICE,ATF,US Marshalls,FMCSA,DOT OIG,FBI.That’s sounds like more than tax related.”
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It more than likely is related to hiring illegals, but it wouldn’t be surprising if there’s more to it. It’s been a while, but several months ago I read on FR more than a few stories of tanker trucks disappearing. Never heard if they were recovered.
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