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TSA Supervisor Allegedly Stole Cash from Passenger Bags
ABC News ^ | Oct. 20, 2010 | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ

Posted on 10/22/2010 8:56:17 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

A Transportation Security Administration supervisor has been arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars in cash from passengers going through an airport checkpoint.

As passengers -- mostly foreigners heading home -- came through the checkpoint at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport, the supervisor and another TSA agent would subject them to secondary searches and allegedly take cash from their carry-on bags.

The supervisor, Michael Arato, 41, of Ewing, N.J., was changed with one count of accepting bribes, one count of conspiring to commit theft and three counts of theft by a government employee. The other TSA worker is now cooperating with authorities and has not been named in court records.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; homeland; hopeandchange; newjersey; thanksbush; tsa; unions
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To: RobRoy
FWIW, I only hit the post key once for the above two posts.

It's not your fault....FReep still has lots of bugs; I'll know progress is being made when the posting-time clock isn't ten minutes fast.

21 posted on 10/22/2010 9:49:34 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’ve had a number of odd items stolen before out of my bags. The last one was really strange. The under wire to my wife’s bra was removed and taken. What the heck is up with with that??


22 posted on 10/22/2010 9:51:56 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Beaten Valve
As the Dems loudly bleated at the time of the department's creation,

“If we want to professionalize, we must Federalize!”

CA....

23 posted on 10/22/2010 9:59:35 AM PDT by Chances Are
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To: StolarStorm

About items out of your bags ... I had someone else’s make up put INTO my bag.

Good stuff, too, but it was used by who knows what so I threw it out.

It was so bizarre.


24 posted on 10/22/2010 10:04:11 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: Slings and Arrows
The other TSA worker is now cooperating with authorities and has not been named in court records.

Sounds like the thief will keep his job.

25 posted on 10/22/2010 10:04:16 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’ll never fly again. Seriously.


26 posted on 10/22/2010 10:40:57 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

TSA = Too Stupid for Arbys.


27 posted on 10/22/2010 10:42:46 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Newtoidaho

“TSA: They’ll Steal Anything”

I’ll have to add that one.

TSA: Too Stupid for Arbys / They’ll Steal Anything.


28 posted on 10/22/2010 10:46:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Cloverfarm
They probably dropped a couple of bags in the baggage area while they were open and couldn't figure out what went where so they guessed
29 posted on 10/22/2010 10:46:57 AM PDT by Polynikes (Haakkaa Paalle)
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To: RobRoy

It was worth posting twice!


30 posted on 10/22/2010 11:07:20 AM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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To: SunkenCiv

My pleasure. I hope this a-hole gets more than a slap on the wrist.


31 posted on 10/22/2010 12:04:06 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: PAR35
Sounds like the thief will keep his job.

And what do you know, a supervisory position just opened up...

32 posted on 10/22/2010 12:06:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TheOldLady

Amen.


33 posted on 10/22/2010 12:23:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Wholeheartedly agree.


34 posted on 10/22/2010 2:06:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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