Student Molested by TSA Agent in New York Airport

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FILE- 75 Years Since La Guardia Airport Opens In New YorkBy Philip Messing. A uniformed TSA agent lured a college student into a La Guardia Airport men’s room under the pretense she needed more screening — and then he molested the woman, sources told The Post on Friday.

Shortly after the attack, suspect Maxi Oquendo allegedly pretended to pore over surveillance video looking for the perp, but he was identified by witnesses and arrested . . .

The sick attack happened right after the 22-year-old victim, from South Korea, got off a Southwest Airlines flight from Salt Lake City at about 8 p.m. Tuesday in Terminal B and was allegedly approached by ­Oquendo, 40 . . .

Oquendo was working as a TSA evening supervisor that night. After learning that a sex complaint had been filed, he went through the motions of reviewing video surveillance footage, sources said.

But two female witnesses who work at the airport were able to help provide a description that matched the heavyset Oquendo, sources said. (Read more from “Student Molested by TSA Agent in New Work Airport” HERE)

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TSA Screener Accused of Molesting College Student in LaGuardia Airport Bathroom

By Carolina Leid. A TSA screener is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at LaGuardia Airport in New York City after telling her she needed to be searched in the bathroom.

The suspect did not post $3,000 bail and was moved to jail late Friday night.

Defense attorneys argued two witnesses said they saw another man, but prosecutors say the victim picked Maxie Oquendo out in a lineup.

The TSA screener is accused of using his job to lure a passenger into a bathroom at LaGuardia Airport under the guise that he needed to search her for weapons.

Maxie Oquendo allegedly sexually assaulted a 22-year-old student from South Korea after her Salt Lake City flight landed Tuesday afternoon. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Obama Administration Wins Ruling in NSA Data Collection Case

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M_Id_442490_NSAA challenge to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone-call data was dealt a setback Friday when a U.S. appeals court said a judge shouldn’t have moved to block the program, which he called “almost Orwellian.”

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in 2013 granted legal activist Larry Klayman’s request for an order to halt the NSA’s collection of his data. Leon then put that ruling on hold pending a government appeal.

A divided three-judge panel Friday overturned Leon’s order while saying Klayman’s case can still go forward. The judges all agreed Klayman hadn’t shown he is likely to succeed, but two of them said he should have the opportunity.

One of the two, U.S. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown, said it was entirely possible the Obama administration may rightfully refuse to turn over the information Klayman requests.

“Such is the nature of the government’s privileged control over certain classes of information,” she wrote. “Regulations of this sort may frustrate the inquisitive citizen, but that does not make them illegal or illegitimate.” (Read more from “Obama Administration Wins Ruling in NSA Data Collection Case” HERE)

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Wyoming Man Files Suit Over Massive EPA Fines for Building Pond

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01top_08-28-15By Eric Boehm. A rancher is taking the Environmental Protection Agency to federal court, asking a judge to stop the agency from fining him more than $16 million because he built a small pond on his property.

Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger, Wyoming says he made sure to get the proper permits from his state government before building the pond. After all, this is America in the 21st century, and nothing done on your own property — certainly when it involves the use of water — is beyond government concern.

Johnson is facing millions in fines from the federal government after the EPA determined his small pond — technically a “stock pond” to provide better access to water for animals on his ranch — is somehow violating the federal Clean Water Act.

“We went through all the hoops that the state of Wyoming required, and I’m proud of what we built,” Johnson said. “The EPA ignored all that.” (Read more from “Wyoming Man Files Suit Over Massive EPA Fines for Building Pond” HERE)

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Wyoming Man Takes EPA to Court

By Wyoming Tribune Eagle. A southwest Wyoming farmer is taking the Environmental Protection Agency to court for what he says is an illegal overreach of its authority.

Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger has been locked in a battle of wills with the EPA since 2013, when he built a stock pond on his property to provide a watering hole for his cattle.

Not long after the pond was built, however, the EPA informed Johnson that the pond, which is connected to Six Mile Creek south of Fort Bridger, was in violation of the Clean Water Act.

Johnson protested, stating that he had sought and received a permit through the state engineer’s office, which subsequently confirmed that the stock pond met all of the office’s legal requirements.

But that failed to convince the EPA, which sent Johnson a compliance order in January 2014 instructing him to remove the stock pond or face $37,500 in fines for every day he refused to do so. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Poll: Clinton’s Lead Shrinks as Trump Maintains Dominance

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trumpclinton1Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Democratic presidential race is the slimmest it’s been in years, as Donald Trump keeps a stranglehold on the GOP race, a new poll found Friday.

Clinton maintains 45 percent support among Democrats, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is up to 25 percent, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking survey released Friday.

It’s Clinton’s smallest lead since Reuters started polling Democratic voters on her candidacy in 2012, the news service noted.

Vice President Biden, who is rumored to be mulling a White House bid, drew 16 percent. The remaining people polled were undecided or voting for other candidates.

Trump received 33 percent support among Republicans, crushing his closest rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, at 12 percent. (Read more from “Poll: Clinton’s Lead Shrinks as Trump Maintains Dominance” HERE)

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GOP Big Shots Aren’t Taking Donald Trump Seriously

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Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Mobile, Alabama“It WON’T be Donald Trump.”

That was the near-unanimous view of some of the nation’s wealthiest and most influential Republicans Saturday night as they gathered for a political briefing at billionaire Wilbur Ross’ Southampton estate with national GOP Chairman Reince Priebus.

Trump’s rise as the front-running GOP candidate for president was expected to dominate talk at the gathering of about 60 Republican bigwigs and high rollers, including builder/developer Earl Mack, Gristedes owner and biofuels magnate John Catsimatidis, the Tiger Fund’s Julian Robertson, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox.

But it became clear early on that that wasn’t going to be the case because so many of those at the event see Trump as a fatally flawed candidate, much as they’ve seen him as a flawed and often off-putting businessman over the past three decades, a source who was present told The Post.

“These are people who know Trump well, people who have known Trump for years as part of the social and financial fabric of the city,” the source said. (Read more from “GOP Big Shots Aren’t Taking Donald Trump Seriously” HERE)

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O’Malley Challenges DNC Over ‘Rigged’ Debate Schedule

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omalley-newsmakerx-largeFormer Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley thinks the Democratic Party’s decision to limit the number of primary debates is tantamount to rigging the nomination process.

“Four debates and only four debates — we are told, not asked — before voters in our earliest states make their decision,” the presidential candidate said at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Summer Meeting on Friday.

“This sort of rigged process has never been attempted before,” he added. “One debate in Iowa. That’s it. One debate in New Hampshire. That’s all we can afford.”

After O’Malley’s speech wrapped up, observers noted palpable tension as he greeted DNC Chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. (Read more from “O’Malley Challenges DNC Over ‘Rigged’ Debate Schedule” HERE)

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Fox News Anchor Exposes Media Narrative on News Crew Killings With One Cutting Question

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150826133305-vester-flanagan-1024x576Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson exploded the double standard involved when blacks commit crimes against whites on Wednesday when she asked a security expert why the televised murders of two whites by a black former colleague are not being labeled as hate crimes.

Carlson pointed out that the gunman, Vester Flanagan, was motivated by race when he killed reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward and injured another white woman. Carlson noted Flanagan’s detailed and racially charged manifesto that was faxed to ABC News after the murders.

“He put the initials of the Charleston church shooting victims on the bullets that he used today, he praised the Virginia Tech mass killer, Columbine High School killers, says he was being attacked for being a gay black man.

“He shot three white people today,” Carlson said. “How is that not a hate crime?”

“No, Gretchen, it’s not,” security expert Paul Viollis tried to explain. “This is quintessential workplace violence from the behavioral profile of the individual to the actions that he displayed, from the manifesto to the time he was terminated in 2013.” (Read more from “Fox News Anchor Exposes Media Narrative on News Crew Killings With One Cutting Question” HERE)

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IRS Scandal: Lois Lerner’s Secret, Personal Email Account Was Perfect Cover

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1440534101700Former top IRS official Lois Lerner – at the center of a well-orchestrated scheme targeting conservative organizations – used an alias while at the IRS.

In new documents just released, an IRS attorney has confirmed that Lois Lerner used another email to conduct IRS business – under the name of “Toby Miles.”

That revelation prompts this question: why would the director of the Exempt Organizations Unit use an alias – a secret, personal email account while at the IRS?

You don’t have to think very long to come up with the answer . . .

We know that Lerner used her official IRS email to participate in the orchestration of this targeting scheme – even plotting with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to fabricate evidence – to, as she put it, “piece together false statement cases” so the DOJ could launch criminal prosecutions of law-abiding citizens in the absence of any complaints or evidence of wrongdoing. (Read more from “IRS Scandal: Lois Lerner’s Secret, Personal Email Account Was Perfect Cover” HERE)

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Topping Turmoil: Big Pizza Company Fights ObamaCare Menu Mandate

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dominos_hoboken_15The pizza lobby is mounting a double-extra-large battle against looming government regulations that would force their franchises to post a dizzying array of calorie counts on their menus.

Under ObamaCare, a Food and Drug Administration rule would require restaurants and food retail shops with over 20 locations, like pizza delivery chains, to post in-store menus displaying nutritional information.

Pizza chains argue this would be particularly tough for them, and take extraordinarily large menu boards. Domino’s Pizza claims it offers 34 million different pie combinations; Pizza Hut boasted last year it can make 2 billion different pizzas. While the FDA has suggested restaurants can institute calorie “ranges” for each pizza, one Domino’s franchise owner in Missouri guessed it would cost him $5,000 to build the boards — though over 90 percent of Domino’s business comes in over the phone or online, and so most customers never see the in-store board.

“You can’t possibly fit all the iterations of pizza on a typical menu board like you can for burgers, for example,” Lynn Liddle, executive vice president of communications for Domino’s, said in testimony before Congress in June. According to this Domino’s video, menu boards are used in less than 1.5 percent of their total orders each day. She told FoxNews.com Thursday that Domino’s has been providing nutritional information voluntarily online for 10 years.

“I think what we’re doing is the right thing for our consumers and for the small business owners, so they do not have to pay for a big static menu board that won’t help the consumer anyway,” said Liddle, who also represents the American Pizza Community — a consortium including Pizza Hut, Little Caesars and Papa John’s now lobbying to relax the rules under proposed legislation. (Read more from “Topping Turmoil: Big Pizza Company Fights ObamaCare Menu Mandate” HERE)

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Trump Has a Very Surprising Distant Relative Who Happens to Be a Presidential Candidate

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Hunterj_is_a_Question_markRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump may not be as much of the political outsider as purported in interviews and campaign stomps. He is actually related to royalty – and is a distant cousin of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

As it turns out, both are related to John of Gaunt, a 14th century royal. Gaunt, who was the 1st Duke of Lancaster, was the son of King Edward III. According to MyHeritage, Trump is related through his mother, Mary Anne Macleod, back to his 17th great-grandfather, John Beaufort, while Clinton is related through her father and the Rodham family, back to her 17th great-grandmother, Joan Beaufort. The two candidates are 19th cousins. Neither has commented on this fact . . .

Having two presidential candidates who are related isn’t new. The website We Are All Related shows that all of the U.S. presidents, except for one, are related. The common ancestor was John “Lackland” Plantagenet, who was the King of England in 1166. The project, completed by 10-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, showed the only president who does not share the royal ancestry with the other presidents was President Martin Van Buren. (Read more from “Trump Has a Very Surprising Distant Relative Who Happens to Be a Presidential Candidate” HERE)

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