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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117061)	11/25/2008 12:13:40 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

i read an article today that said the top 8 financial institutions are still levered at 29-1 and that whatever equity they have is expected to be wiped out by the bad loans and bad investments. effectively, they will all soon have negative equity. ouch!

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117061)	11/26/2008 9:40:30 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

rofl Rockland man allegedly posed as agent to board plane By O’Ryan Johnson \| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 \| bostonherald.com \| Local Coverage State police and airline ticket agents whisked a Rockland man who claimed he had a gun around TSA security checkpoints at Logan International Airport, putting him on a plane after he flashed a Chatham assistant harbormaster’s badge and claimed he was a federal agent, an FBI affidavit said. Federal prosecutors yesterday charged Stephen Grant, 48, of Rockland with impersonating a federal agent. Grant is a medical supply salesman who worked summer weekends in Chatham monitoring boaters. Grant told the Herald last night he is innocent, claiming a misunderstanding, and said the situation was settled nearly two years ago after he admitted to mistakes and paid a $4,000 fine. He said at no time did he carry a gun. A state police spokesman declined to comment about the apparent security breach last night, referring calls to the U.S. attorney’s office. Transportation Safety officials declined comment. The affidavit states that on a January 2007 trip from Boston to San Diego, Grant told American Airlines [AMR] ticket agents he was armed and worked for the Department of Homeland Security. He filled out a flying-while-armed form in which, the FBI says, he listed his occupation as DHS. In reality, the salesman volunteered on the Cape and Island Homeland Security Subcommittee. On two flights, crews following federal regulations identified for him everyone who was armed on the plane, including two air marshals. On one plane, he was taken into the cockpit. The affidavit says the error began when the ticket agents at Logan, asking for Grant’s identification, were satisfied with his harbormaster’s badge, and a trooper only looked at Grant’s form and his badge before signing Grant in the TSA log book and letting him board his flight via an exit door. Though required by federal rules, at no point did Grant show them a letter from the Department of Homeland Security, his supposed employer, stating the reason he needed to carry a gun, the affidavit said. A gate agent in San Diego spotted the error, and the FBI met Grant at Logan. Grant, insisting the matter had been resolved, said last night, “I put everything behind me. This call comes back again today. I have nothing to hide. . . . Somewhere along the line there’s been a mixup. Why now? Why after two years when all this stuff was settled with a fine? It was a stupid thing to have happened.” Article URL: bostonherald.com Related Articles: