Illegal immigrant uses dead criminal's ID to get all-access job

[thewayne]

"Jerry Thomas" worked for the Newark Liberty International Airport, supervised 30 security guards whose duties included inspecting trucks on the tarmac, and had access to all areas of the building. Unfortunately this Jerry Thomas was also a convicted criminal who was killed in NYC in 1992.

He probably got away with it because he was using the ID for nine years before 9/11, so he was already trusted. But the question to me is: how was a convicted criminal able to get a job as a security guard, then supervisor, at an airport?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/airport-security-id-theft/

Comments

[silveradept]

I'd love to know all of those things, too. I would have thought that being a convicted felon would have disqualified you for jobs requiring clearance.

Of course, I also thought the military would refuse people with ties to White Nationalists and extremists, and that's not true...