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September 21st, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
September 20, 2015
According to reports , an agent for the Transportation Security Administration (RSA) has been accused of stealing $61 dollars from a 26 year old passenger’s wallet during a routine screen check at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
The alleged victim, according to Joe Pentangelo, port authority spokesperson, “placed his wallet in a bin during routine screening. When he retrieved it he noticed the money was gone.”
Pentangelo revealed that during a police investigation, “photographic evidence” showed TSA agent Joe Bangay, was responsible for the theft; and was promptly charged with criminal possession of stolen property and larceny.
Theft has been an ongoing issue with the TSA – so much so that the agency has pocketed as much as $675,000 so far this year in loose change.
According to Ross Feinstein, media contact for the TSA, a 2014 fiscal report showed that loose change has become an easy way for the agency to keep the cash flow going.
The TSA is supposed to “reunite passengers with items left at the checkpoints” including loose change, items left behind and unclaimed items. However this does not always happen.
Back in 2008, the TSA collected $383,413.79 from passengers at airports. This number jumped up to $674,841.06 in 2014.
Congress has been trying to introduce legislation that would prohibit the TSA from stealing loose change from airport travelers.
Called HR 1095, entitled, “TSA Loose Change Act”, was approved by the House and is being considered in the Senate.
This legislation would direct the TSA to turn over loose change found instead of pocketing it – since it did not belong to them in the first place.
In 2013, the TSA was caught collecting change left behind by travelers at airports and using it toward the civil aviation security (CAS).
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the CAS is an international security agency that relies on intelligence on passengers to determine an individual’s threat level.
Yet in 2012 alone, the TSA have an estimated $531,395 in dimes, pennies and nickels that have not been attributed to the CAS.
In fact, only about $6,500 has been spent toward the CAS, according to a report by the House of Representatives.
It will take legislation by the House to force the TSA to give this change to non-profit organization.
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