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Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures

U.S. Department of Justice suspends controversial airport search program after ANF investigation.

Earlier this year, David (who wanted his identity concealed because his employer does business with the government) said no to a “consensual search” at the boarding gate for a flight from the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Airport to New York City. The IG report showed one airline employee “has received tens of thousands of dollars from the DEA over the past several years for seizures resulting from information [they] provided of travelers with tickets purchased within 48 hours of their flight.” Atlanta News First Investigates went to dozens of airport gates in Georgia, Washington, D.C., and Louisiana since the directive was issued, and saw no sign of the plainclothes drug agents previously recorded searching passengers at boarding doors.

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