USPS arrested Steve Bannon. Yes, the post office can arrest people.
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The USPS: Carrying your mail and carrying out justice.
By Nicole Narea@nicolenarea Aug 20, 2020, 1:34pm EDT
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The US Postal Service is out to deliver justice against former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
It may not have come as a shock that Bannon, often described as a grifter, was allegedly caught up in a scheme to defraud donors to a crowdfunding campaign that promised to construct a wall on the US-Mexico border.
But it was a surprise to some that the USPS, the same agency that President Donald Trump has tried to cripple ahead of an expected surge of mail-in ballots in November, carried out his arrest on a $28 million megayacht called Lady May off the coast of Connecticut Thursday morning:
The Postal Service has police? That's really pushing the envelope. — Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) August 20, 2020
These aren't your everyday mail carriers: They are part and parcel of an elite police unit known as the US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), which has been fighting crime since the mail fraud statute was enacted in 1872. There are about 1,200 such postal inspectors who carry weapons, make arrests, execute federal search warrants, and serve subpoenas. They have even inspired a CBS reality series, "The Inspectors."
All agents must complete a 16-week training program that covers firearms, physical fitness, and defensive tactics. In 2019, they made 5,759 arrests and 4,995 convictions related to postal crimes, according to USPS.
"They say, 'Oh, you're a lot like the FBI.' And I like to tell them, 'No, the FBI is a lot like us,'" one USPIS agent says in a recruiting video:
They often team up with other federal, state, and local authorities to investigate mail theft, fraud, identity theft, narcotics cases, opioid investigations, lottery scams, and more. Investigations sometimes span years.
In Bannon's case, they collaborated with Audrey Strauss, the acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York. It's not immediately clear why the USPIS got involved since neither of the charges levied against Bannon — conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud — appear to be directly related to the mail, and the USPIS declined to comment on their investigation of Bannon, which is ongoing.
The inspector in charge of the New York division of postal inspectors, Philip Bartlett, said in a statement that Bannon's indictment should send a message to other fraudsters: "No one is above the law."
"The defendants allegedly engaged in fraud when they misrepresented the true use of donated funds," Bartlett said. "As alleged, not only did they lie to donors, they schemed to hide their misappropriation of funds by creating sham invoices and accounts to launder donations and cover up their crimes, showing no regard for the law or the truth."
Clearly, the USPS doesn't just sell stamps — it also acts to stamp out crime.
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Poetic justice strikes again !
Lou Dobbs claims arrest of Steve Bannon is a “deep state” plot
Geez, what took you so long?
In the early 2000's Dobbs was a reasonable conservative. I found myself agreeing with some of his ideas. But over the years he's become more and more extreme in his opinions. I think he's now losing all grip on reality.
Same here. Sad to see really. Like watching him fall off the deep end.
Oh, the irony.
Who else will they catch with their hands in the mail box.
One can only hope.
Maybe Trump will say this arrest doesnt count because he's disbanding the post office.
People have no idea how much power postal inspectors have.
Having 'no idea' has never stopped conservative Republicans from coming up with hilariously flawed false narratives about a supposed "deep state", powerful postal inspectors and pizza parlor sex dungeons.
Lol, you just can’t help yourself can you?
It never ceases to amaze me how biased some folks here are.
But you're the picture of impartiality? The Saint of Neutrality? The Grand Puba of Equity?
Please. You might want to get off your high horse and look back at the constant biased droppings you've been leaving and stepping in virtually every time you comment before hypocritically pointing out the dirt on someone else's shoe.
Ah yes, the old, I know you are but what am I gambit.
Classic!
Is this the van they put him in?
that's funny...but that would be poetic justice. Cramped space with letters stuck up your butt
...."Sort This!"
Is it me, or are the Trump and Trump related hits just coming from every direction today?
Karma getting ready to unload on the Trump crime family?
What the hell is it.......?
One think I know it isn't...... fake news!
When a site such as this has sycophants that spend their whole time looking for gotcha moments for the administration in the news to post, there are bound to be dozens. All one has to do is look at the sources for the seeds.
All you've got, as usual, is disputing the source.
It's so tiresome.
Just took a trip over to Breitbart...... Found the same topics just a few minutes ago Jim.
The comments on the Bannon arrest over there are beyond stupid.
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I'm sure they are. And probably just the opposite from here.
No one has to spend time looking for them. Just read the news every morning and there you go, Bob's your uncle.
This might come as a shock to you, but no one, and I mean NO ONE, is keeping you here.
They are always the same. From the leftist side of MBFC is all I'm saying. Not disputing the fact of who they are but what they are and stand for and the reason the seeds are so easy to find.
Gee...you know what I do when I see a bunch of rightest nonsense posted on NT?
I ignore it. Nobody is holding a gun to my head forcing me to make comments on seeds I think are stupid
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[Take it to Metafied...]
Oh really? Please go find just one comment where I said a seed was stupid and nonsense. If you don't, then we all know who's really telling the truth, don't we?
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Cute Kitty!
You're getting dangerously close to Meta, Jim
Didn't say anything about you saying a seed was stupid (nor did I ever say a seed was stupid) you said you ignore and my posit was that you still comment on "the other side of the story" comments. Sorry you misunderstood.
And you aren't as well as a few more? I'm sure there are SPTB will agree with you.
We need to be done now. I will leave you all to your ways. Carry on.
That's what I said, Jim...highlighted in red and bold.
Nonsense and stupid are the same thing in my book.
And while you may not have said this seed is "stupid", you're implying it is by making it all about the "visitors" and "friends" who read our comments.
But...I'm done. This is going down the path of Meta and I want nothing to do with it.
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Damn hard to miss those articles and the 2000 visitors see those as well.
Pot meet kettle.
Yeah like those. And that is one person and it does get tiresome. How many here post just the opposite? A hell of a lot more than 1
You can always post whatever you choose and even up the numbers.
Are you saying that Bannon was not arrested?
Are you saying that Bannon is not a former "Chief Strategist" for President Trump?
... Are you contesting any of the facts in this story?
I read the posts from NT members for years before joining. I have a pretty good idea where each of you stand politically and socially. Some of you have really shown your asses of the years and some of you have made some damm fine comments on both sides of a discussion. (hehe) What I'm trying to say is that when baseless claims are made against other members or seeded articles it doesn't provide a good look to any visitor to this site. It also doesn't give a good appearance to visitors when a statement is made on an article and the responses out right lies, propaganda, fallacies or just plain hate.
Just my thoughts...
Ok, I admit it. That was funny.
Post Office - arrest - hummmm - Is there a "cancel culture" joke in there?
Apparently conservative Republicans are just fine with "cancel culture", it just has to be groups they want to cancel. Just ask Goodyear.
How the hell can a President call for a boycott of a private company? Who does he think he is Putin?
every one of the moronic xenophobes that sent money to fund their wall deserved to be swindled.
Fools and their money......
If he doesn't get bonded out of jail post haste, he's going to get his ass kicked based on the embarrassment of having been arrested by the mailman.
My cousin is a letter carrier...and she's a tiny thing. I now have an image in my head of my cousin wrestling Bannon to the ground and putting handcuffs on him.
Yeah...my cousin is definitely not as burly as those inspectors. But she grew up with 2 brothers and 5 male cousins....she could hold her own
I missed the bumper sticker...LOL!
I guess UPS would be considered Blackwater.
Interesting you'd mention Blackwater. I just read a report that said Eric Prince was an advisor to the group of con artists. This gets better and better.
Yep. A veritable who's who in the Trump support group.
Did you know rich biatch Betsy DeVos was his sister?
Tuck Frump...Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I forgot about that. Is there any connection to these creeps that isn't shady?
Warfighter' at a boat parade in Destin, Florida over July 4th weekend
(Instagram vai Twitter/@EvanCHill)
Brian Kolfage, the wounded Iraq veteran indicted for fraud on Thursday, allegedly used fundraising efforts surrounding a privately-built wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to fund a "lavish lifestyle" which included the purchase of a boat he named 'Warfighter,' according to prosecutors.
Supporting Trump, you can't make this shit up.
Maybe he can sell the Trump flags to help him make bail.......
Too bad..... Served his country, Purple Heart recipient due to a 107mm rocket explosion......
Bannon too was a Naval officer....Surface Warfare qualified on Spruance class destroyers.... Bright guy, but got his hand caught in the cookie jar.
The only bailing he'll be doing is bailing fast enough that he doesn't go down with the ship.
Oh yeah, he's free alright the only cost was a $5 million bond of which $1.75 million had to be his assets and travel restrictions. The truth will set him free, well after 10 to 20.
TDS, you mean ''Trumps Delusional Screeching''. Yup, he is stuck in the prison of his own mind.
And he surrendered his passport.
He's living large, lol.
At least..
The up-side is that he'll be able to make an honest dollar around the Christmas holidays.
Would you want to sit on that man's lap....?
Who's child would you ask to do the same...?
Anybody want to bet that all USPIS agents will soon be assigned to the coldest town in Alaska?
That sucks, but you are probably right.
The Comments here are... interesting...
Here's a guy who has played on his victims' patriotism to cheat them. His behavior is inexcusable.
But some NT members defend him. Amazing....
Some people will use anything to cheat their fellow Americans. (this one's pretty low) It's even worse that some will support these grifters no matter who they cheat.