“A convicted TSA security officer says he was part of a ‘culture’ of indifference that allowed corrupt employees to prey on passengers’ luggage and personal belongings with impunity, thanks to lax oversight and tip-offs from TSA colleagues. Pythias Brown, a former TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey who admits he stole more than $800,000 worth of items from luggage and security checkpoints over a four-year period. Brown is one of almost 400 TSA officers who have been fired for stealing from passengers in the past decade.”
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Related posts:
LAPD takes aim at wave of Asian ‘maternity tourists’
Google launches $105 Android One; eyes India smartphone boom
The Government’s Perilous Bitcoin Chase
Colorado police officer found guilty on dozens of school sex charges
Financier amasses $1 billion in mining investments, plans hedge fund
The condemned coca leaf: One standard for a major soft drink, another for people
Virginia judge sentenced to 30 days for growing 41 marijuana plants
New leak: NSA spied on French diplomats and Al Jazeera
NH lawmakers kill bill to spy on motorists with license plate scanners
Iraq's exiled vice president sentenced to death as violence grows
Jobless Greek youth find innovative ways to make a living
New EPA chief: Can we stop talking about regulations killing jobs, please?
More than 1,000 Iraqis killed in July, highest monthly toll since 2008
How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish [2007]
Extraordinary rendition report claims 54 countries ‘offered covert support’ of CIA torture operation