Posts Tagged ‘stealing’
TSA agents arrested for stealing from passengers’ bags
Two TSA agents were busted Wednesday at Kennedy Airport for stealing $39,000 from a passenger’s bag, a law enforcement source said. The rogue agents, Coumar Persad and Davon Webb, have admitted to other thefts of up to $160,000, the source said…
They were charged with grand larceny, possession of stolen property and official misconduct.
The source said the agents worked in tandem. One would watch for money as the bags were screened, then notify the other about the loot. One would swipe the money once the luggage was placed in a baggage room.
Ain’t criminal teamwork inspiring? Especially within a system that is supposed to be dedicated to protection.
Two charged over email address hacking on AT&T network
U.S. prosecutors have charged two men with stealing and distributing email addresses for about 120,000 users of Apple’s popular iPad.
Investigators accused Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer of using an “account slurper” to conduct a “brute force” attack over five days last June, to extract data about iPad users who accessed the Internet through AT&T’s 3G network.
Among the possible victims were celebrities, businesses executives and government officials such as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and perhaps then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, prosecutors said.
Spitler, 26, and Auernheimer, 25, were taken into custody by FBI agents on Tuesday morning, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey said in a statement.
Prosecutors said both defendants are associated with Goatse Security, a group of “self-professed Internet ‘trolls’” who try to disrupt online content and services. They said Auernheimer bragged in published interviews about his trolling…
The defendants were each charged with one count of fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. Each charge carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison plus a $250,000 fine…
The defendants then supplied stolen data to gossip website Gawker, which published some details, the complaint said.
Nothing like cooperating with scumballs, eh?
Italian police charged with stealing stolen food
They do everything with style in Naples
Eleven Naples police officers were arrested Friday on charges of stealing about a ton of food from a hijacked truck, authorities said.
The Italian news agency ANSA reported Deputy Police Chief Pasquale Toscano, the head of the Naples flying squad, and 10 other officers are suspected of filing a false report after catching the truck and arresting its five hijackers.
Toscano will be replaced and the 70-member squad reorganized, Naples Chief Prosecutor Giovandomenico Lepore told reporters.
“The rotten apples have been found and eliminated,” Lepore said. “Certain things cannot be allowed, at any level.”
Har! [Yes - a hollow laugh]
Stealing electricity with a meat hook and not too many brains
This guy was not Benjamin Franklin
German police are investigating a man for theft after he siphoned electricity off a high-voltage overhead transmission line for one month with the help of an ordinary meat hook.
The 36-year old man from Sibbesse in Lower Saxony concocted the plan to steal electricity after the power company cut him off for failure to pay his bills, police said.
The man attached a cable to the meat hook and tossed it onto an overhead power line. He then drew power from the transmission line to his home, located about 150 meters away.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my 34-year-career,” said Friedrich-Wilhelm Lach, chief executive of regional utility Ueberlandwerke Leinetal GmbH, told Reuters. “It’s incredibly dangerous and utterly stupid.”
An employee of the utility noticed the meat hook during a routine check. Lach said the man was lucky he is still alive and warned copycats not to try it: “It will kill you,” he said.
I can’t wait for this stunt to be tried by some of the knuckle-dragging gangbangers in my neck of the prairie.
DOJ sues KBR for illegal charges in Bush’s War
The U.S. Justice Department has sued the Houston-based military contractor KBR Inc for alleged false claims act violations over improper costs for private security in Iraq.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleged that KBR knowingly included impermissible costs for private armed security in billings to the U.S. Army covering the 2003-2006 time period, the department said.
KBR has been the U.S. military’s largest private contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has been criticized for cost overruns in Iraq, and lawmakers in Congress last month questioned the Army’s continued use of KBR for logistics work…
The Justice Department said the case, which seeks unspecified damages, was brought as part of an initiative to crack down on procurement fraud.
The contract at issue in the lawsuit provided for logistical support, such as food services, transportation, laundry and mail, for military operations in Iraq. The lawsuit involved the company and 33 KBR subcontractors…
The lawsuit alleged that KBR managers considered the use of private security unacceptable and were concerned the Army would disallow costs for such services. But KBR still charged for the costs of the unauthorized services, the suit said.
Back in the day, when I worked in the offshore oil industry, there were a few companies that owned the United States government. Halliburton and KBR were the leaders of the pack when it came to sucking dollars from American taxpayers.
They were the overseers who said, “Jump, boy!” The Pentagon, Congress – would always answer, “How high, boss?”
Contemptible and corrupt as were those practices in the past, the indifference of the Oil Patch Boys to any prospect of fiscal and corporate responsibility is worse. Throw the creeps in jail!
Janitor used patients’ files for ID theft
Showing off jewelry from fraudulent purchases – Facebook
In what Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart described as a “sophisticated identity-theft ring,” a janitor stole data from as many as 250 patient files at a Northwestern University physicians’ group and, with the help of her two sisters and friends, used the personal information to charge more than $300,000 in jewelry, furniture, appliances and electronics. They sold the goods to friends and relatives, pocketing the profits.
Seven suspects have been arrested, while three others, including janitor Tijuana Leonard, are wanted on felony warrants, according to the sheriff’s office…
While working the night shift for Millard Cleaning Service, Leonard, 33, of Chicago, stole personal information from patient files in the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation’s offices and passed it along to others, Dart said.
In some cases they would use the personal information to open credit accounts at retailers either online or in the store, Dart said. In other cases they added their names to victims’ accounts. They then often went on an immediate shopping spree — sometimes charging in excess of $5,000 at a time, according to the sheriff.
Dart was critical that the stores weren’t more suspicious when the ring members opened credit accounts and then quickly bought as many as four plasma TVs at a time…
Do you think?
Investigators began noticing that many the victims saw doctors on floors 19-21 of the medical facility and narrowed the search down to Leonard, the janitor assigned to those floors…
The Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation has set up a hot line for patients to call.
Well, the Medical group is really on top of things, aren’t they?
