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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:47:38 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: "John F. McMullen" <observer () westnet com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:26:30 -0400 (EDT) To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com Cc: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>, <declan () well com> Subject: More airport security workers arrested / fired Wonderful! Makes one feel even safer!
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- http://dailynews.attbi.com/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=020423&cat=news&st=newsatta cka iationfrauddc.html More airport security fired By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 100 employees at two major Washington-area airports have been arrested on fraud charges in obtaining restricted airport security badges, government sources said on Tuesday. The arrests will be announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft later in the day in Alexandria, Virginia, officials said. The arrests marked a continuing post Sept. 11 crackdown by U.S. law enforcement and transportation authorities on airport security lapses. Many of the charges -- including those being brought against workers at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport outside the capital -- involved allegations that suspects violated immigration and Social Security laws. Also, the federal government alleged that many arrested on Tuesday in the greater Washington area lied about criminal records while applying for airport security clearances, the sources said. It was unclear initially what jobs those employees performed, but few, if any, were passenger or baggage screeners, the sources said. Law enforcement and transportation officials launched operations to target people with illegally obtained airport security credentials in the weeks following the Sept. 11 hijack attacks on New York and Washington. As of last week more than 250 people had been arrested at 11 U.S. airports on charges they fraudulently obtained credentials for access to sensitive airport areas, like ramps, gates and aircraft. Roughly half pleaded guilty or have plea agreements pending, authorities said. More than 70 were deported or are awaiting deportation proceedings, authorities said. Tuesday's development was the second involving personnel at Dulles, which is 25 miles (40 km) west of Washington. Soon after the attacks, immigration authorities detained five passenger and baggage screeners who did not have secure clearances. Three were deported and two await deportation hearings. Some other airports targeted in law enforcement security sweeps include Boston Logan, Miami International, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Phoenix. http://dailynews.attbi.com/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=020423&cat=news&st=newsatta cka iationfrauddc.html -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor bisoldi () intellnet org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint () yahoogroups com Subscribe: osint-subscribe () yahoogroups com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscribe () yahoogroups com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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