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A top TSA official for the President Joe Biden administration has been arrested on charges of exploiting an elderly man with dementia.
Maxine McManaman, the assistant federal security director of the TSA, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after she got off of her flight at the Atlanta airport on Dec. 28, NBC News reported.
She was detained on a warrant from the Port St. Lucie police, who announced the arrest in a Facebook post.
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Atlanta detained Maxine McManaman, the Assistant Federal Security Director of Transportation Security Administration (TSA), after arriving from an international flight on December 28th, 2023. She was later arrested on a PSLPD arrest warrant for one count of Forgery, a third-degree felony. She is currently detained at the Clayton County Jail in Georgia awaiting extradition to St. Lucie County,” the post said.
“The investigation began in April of 2023 and involved the exploitation of a family member with dementia. The investigation determined that on December 5, 2022, a quitclaim deed was prepared by Maxine McManaman and stated that the Grantor was listing Maxine McManaman and Delroy Chambers as the Grantee. There were two signatures on the back of the document both listed as Grantor. One was Maxine McManaman’s with letters “POA” in front and the other was Delroy Chambers. It was determined that the Grantor could not have signed the document on the date specified, since the Grantor was determined to be in Atlanta, GA on that date. Maxine McManaman and Delroy Chambers, Sr. were determined to have both falsified the quitclaim deed,” they said.
“Delroy Chambers, Sr. was previously arrested in Port St. Lucie on December 20th, 2023, in relation to this case on 2 counts of Exploitation of an Elderly or Disabled Adult – $50,000 or More, 2 counts of Forgery, and Simple Neglect of an Elderly or Disabled Adult and has since bonded out of the St. Lucie County Jail,” the Port St. Lucie police said.
The TSA said it knows of McManaman’s arrest “for a non-work related charge,” and she is on leave as the investigation continues.
“TSA holds its employees to the highest professional and ethical standards and has no tolerance for misconduct on or off-duty. Any employee who fails to meet our fundamental ethical standards is held accountable,” a spokesperson for the TSA said Friday.
This is not the first time a Biden administration official was in hot water at an airport leading to an arrest.
Sam Brinton, a nonbinary former senior Biden Department of Energy official, learned his fate in April after pleading no contest to theft charges. He was ordered to pay restitution to the victim of the theft of $3,670.74 and a $500 fine which included court fees, Fox News reported.
But he escaped doing any time behind bars as Judge Ann Zimmerman handed him a 180-day suspended sentence and ordered him to “stay out of trouble.”
“In early December, Las Vegas prosecutors charged Brinton with grand larceny of an item valued between $1,200 and $5,000. Police accused Brinton of stealing a suitcase with a total estimated worth of $3,670 on July 6 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. The bag contained jewelry valued at $1,700, clothing worth $850, and makeup valued at $500.”
Fox News reported: “A Las Vegas detective wrote in a police report related to the incident that a woman traveling from Washington, D.C., to Las Vegas on July 6 reported one of her checked bags missing shortly after the incident. Police then reviewed security camera footage and observed a white male adult wearing a white T-shirt with a large rainbow-colored atomic nuclear symbol design removing baggage that matched the victim’s description of her missing bag before quickly exiting the airport. However, following a brief investigation, detectives closed the case after they were unable to identify the suspect.”
In January 2022, a felony arrest warrant was issued for Brinton after he was accused of stealing a woman’s luggage at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the New York Post reported.
