Posted on 03/10/2006 9:28:29 AM PST by stand4somethin
"The complaint said McClaren deposited $85,900 in personal bank accounts, while Alvarez deposited $82,000."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Suspended with pay?
But they aren't arabs, so they can't be bribed. Only UAE people can weaken our security.....
Hang them!
I thought it was just the Mexicans that were crooks!!
Hang them and revoke their 401ks and retirement plans.
Exile them to Mexico.
If they can, both will put in for retirement as we talk.
Even before 911, you could not deposit 10K in a bank account without flagging an investigation. These two were dopes. If found innocent, they should still go to jail for sheer stupidity.
This stuff happens more than most people know. There are Border agents on the gangster's payrolls who are paid to do nothing while the illegals are trafficked right in front of them (sometimes literally).
"But they aren't arabs, so they can't be bribed. Only UAE people can weaken our security....."
Charles... does carrying that water for Bush ever get heavy?
The Ports deal is off buddy.... you can console yourself for trying hard. This post is focused on shutting down our "other" border problem
"This stuff happens more than most people know. There are Border agents on the gangster's payrolls who are paid to do nothing while the illegals are trafficked right in front of them (sometimes literally)."
I think we need to let the Minutemen run the show
If these guys are so stupid or arrogant to deposit the money in their own bank account there must be a really big problem because the smart ones probably have more money and will not be caught.
"the smart ones probably have more money and will not be caught."
yep... perks!
If these two could have dodged the publicity, they very well could have gone on to other careers. When the dirty ones manage to skate out of these deals they end up working in management for Brinks Security, or guarding lottery tickets, Usually with better jobs than they had, because of education and gov't training. I have seen it happen.
These guys will likely be used for example and get jail time, but most don't. Too embarassing for the gov't I guess. These guys may have ticked off the wrong person is why it wasn't handled quietly.
There are bad apples in every bunch, but the gov't is the worst to usually let the bad apples get off.
As of yesterday, DP World officially has purchased P&O. That company no longer exists.
DP World OWNS the U.S. subsidiaries that own the terminal leases.
So, rather than the deal being "off", the deal is DONE. Today DP World could throw out the management of the terminals and put their people in place. They only reason they don't do it is because they understand the war on terror better than the opponents of the deal.
They have promised to offer the U.S. companies up for sale to a U.S. company for a fair price. Another concession they make because they understand the war like opponents do not.
Congress didn't pass a stupid law, so I won on that front. Bush didn't lose a veto, so I won on that front. Bush never had to compromise or give in to irrational fear, so I won again.
I would have won if P&O had decided to pull out of the deal as well. I could care less who owns what company. I had no stock in P&O, have no financial arrangements, I just don't care about who owns the ports.
I care that our government doesn't implement a command economy driven by protectionism that will destroy us. We have won that fight because those on our side were smart enough to react like adults in a atmosphere where the opponents were behaving like children.
As can be seen by your continual personal meaningless retorts.
My point in posting was that the opponents claimed UAE ownership would make it easier to get bad people in place where we needed border protection. This story proves that even people WORKING FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT can be bribed and therefore harm our security.
That you can't see the folly of the UAE argument in light of this story is understandable since the UAE stuff was NEVER about security, it was about america being an island, about people who are tired of the world and want to be left alone.
Not likely. Both are sitting in jail as we speak.
SSA of Seattle planned to work with DP World
By Alwyn Scott
Seattle Times business reporter
SSA Marine, by far the largest U.S.-based port operator, appears to be in prime position to take a role in running the U.S. assets of Dubai Ports World (DP World), the company at the center of the port-security controversy.
Seattle-based SSA had been planning to accept DP World as its joint-venture partner at ports in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., and Camden, N.J.
SSA was a partner in those ports with London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation (P&O). DP World purchased P&O in a $6.8 billion deal that closed this week.
On Thursday, DP World said it would transfer P&O's U.S. assets "to a U.S. entity" either by selling them to another company or setting up a corporate structure without management links to its government-controlled parent in Dubai.
Bob Watters, vice president at SSA, declined to comment on whether the company was interested in acquiring DP World's half of the joint venture, or its assets at other U.S. ports that would have been acquired by DP World. Those include Baltimore; Newark, N.J.; Miami; and New Orleans, all ports where SSA does not have operations.
SSA manages one of the largest terminals at the Port of Seattle.
Through the P&O purchase, DP World would have acquired half of Delaware River Stevedores, the joint venture with SSA. The venture operates port terminals at Philadelphia and Camden; in Wilmington its role is limited to stevedoring, or loading and unloading ships.
SSA has 150 port operations in at least nine countries, Watters said. In 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it won a U.S. government contract to operate the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr to handle aid and reconstruction cargo.
The company leases and operates seven container terminals in the United States. The next-largest U.S. competitor is Maher Terminals, which leases and operates the largest amount of terminal space at the ports of New York and New Jersey. Other large companies leasing U.S. terminals are foreign-owned, Watters said. And other big U.S. companies only operate terminals, but don't lease the land.
Watters said SSA saw no security issues in having DP World as its partner at the three East Coast ports.
"All the same people were going to be in place to run the business, so we had no concerns about [security]," Watters said. "We had the existing stevedoring company there, and all U.S. employees."
Through its stake in the partnership with SSA, DP World would have had access to the government security plans for those terminals, Watters said. Such plans are developed with the U.S. Coast Guard and implemented by the port operators, with periodic Coast Guard inspections, he said.
SSA, known for years as Stevedoring Services of America, was founded in 1949 and limited to Pacific Northwest and Alaska ports until a string of acquisitions in the 1980s. The company ranked 214th among the nation's 500 largest private companies last year, according to Forbes magazine, which estimated its 2004 revenues as $1.45 billion.
I guess the deal didn't go thorugh. Some people will never understand the difference between business and politcal agenda and how easly they are led.
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