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Airport security supervisor arrested in New Jersey

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    Longtime employee used dead man's ID to hide illegal immigration status

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And a longtime security advisor at one of America's busiest airports was just arrested for using the idea of a dead person to get his -- Authorities saying that the man was supervising checkpoints at Newark International Airport he called himself -- Thomas.

But he was actually an illegal immigrant from Nigeria he would use the name and the idea of a murder victim.

To hide his status -- all these twenty years and get this.

He was able to pass background checks for those two decades his arrest came on the same day of a federal report that found.

-- TSA had bungled its handling of security breaches.

At the same -- person -- -- -- That's how he's got a big long name but the first name is bimbo and.