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Security screener at JFK Airport charged with stealing $80,000 from checked bag
Newsday.com ^ | 10/20/2005 | staff

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jfkairport; theft; tsa
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To: Harriet Souter Gonzales

Let me clarify: carrying money is not in itself an act of commerce; commerce involves the exchange of money for goods and services. But one would carry money abroad only with the intent of procuring goods and services in foreign Nations and thus engaging in commerce with foreigners. We have yet to learn what sort of goods and services he intended to exchange for that money while in Pakistan. But practically nobody would pack $80,000 for a trip to Pakistan only to return to America with the same money. We have banks for the safekeeping of money. Requiring the declaration of such large amounts of cash leaving the country, therefore, amounts to a necessary and proper extension of the Power of the Congress to regulate commerce with foreign Nations.


61 posted on 10/29/2005 10:54:07 AM PDT by dufekin (US Senate: the only place where the majority [44 D] comprises fewer than the minority [55 R])
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To: MineralMan

Now, why would I want to do something silly like that?


63 posted on 10/29/2005 11:28:06 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

But, he's a screener. Aren't they all government now? Federalized, and all?


64 posted on 10/29/2005 11:37:39 AM PDT by coloradan (Hence, etc.)
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To: coloradan

Yeah, but I think he personally took it, not that he took it for his bosses.


65 posted on 10/29/2005 2:43:32 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Just looking for an explanation for your statement, to wit:
"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???"

I wasn't necessarily referring to the Canadian border. I guess I should have reread your post. It is self-explanatory. Your ignorance is breathtaking. Your syntax is remarkable.

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So you have run out of logic.

Now you move to personal attacks. Here let me try with a something to say about you. You must be a teacher!! You can't do so you teach. Poor excuse. Manipulation of works does not make you smart, only a slave to rules, can not think outside the box.



66 posted on 10/30/2005 8:30:16 AM PST by CHICAGOFARMER (concealed carry)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; All

Section 371 of the Patriot Act makes it a crime to transport in excess of $10k out of the country in luggage. The punishment is 5 years plus forfieture of the cash.


67 posted on 10/30/2005 8:39:26 AM PST by wtc911 (see my profile for how to contribute to a pentagon heroes fund)
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To: dufekin

The intended use of the money is not a factor. Taking $80K out of the country in luggage is against the law, period.


68 posted on 10/30/2005 8:46:19 AM PST by wtc911 (see my profile for how to contribute to a pentagon heroes fund)
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To: wtc911
Section 371 of the Patriot Act makes it a crime to transport in excess of $10k out of the country in luggage. The punishment is 5 years plus forfieture of the cash.

Thank you for bolstering my point.

69 posted on 10/30/2005 10:13:28 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (This space left intentionally blank)
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To: CHICAGOFARMER
"You must be a teacher!! You can't do so you teach."

Ha ha. Nope, wrong again.

Try to form a complete sentence.

70 posted on 10/30/2005 1:40:45 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Ha ha. Nope, wrong again.

Try to form a complete sentence.


zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Look in a mirror, This is not a sentence. Ha ha. Nope, wrong again.

Try this one on.

I think I hear your mother calling you back in Canada.


71 posted on 10/30/2005 1:44:06 PM PST by CHICAGOFARMER (concealed carry)
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To: CHICAGOFARMER
It not illegal for a man to take this money with him crossing borders?

It not?

72 posted on 07/10/2006 7:14:11 AM PDT by shiva
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Glad to see this Pakastani supporting the U.S. dollar currency value. It could have been Euros!


73 posted on 07/10/2006 7:30:02 AM PDT by Hop A Long Cassidy
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