Minneapolis's top prosecutor has billed taxpayers more than half a million dollars for personal bodyguards since late 2023, even as she publicly accused residents worried about rising crime of "fear mongering." Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, 62, began receiving private security from a firm called Relative Intel, LLC in November 2023, less than a year […] The post Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty spent over $500,000 on private security while dismissing Minneapolis crime fears appeared first on American Almanac .
Minneapolis's top prosecutor has billed taxpayers more than half a million dollars for personal bodyguards since late 2023, even as she publicly accused residents worried about rising crime of "fear mongering." Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, 62, began receiving private security from a firm called Relative Intel, LLC in November 2023, less than a year after she took office. Supplier payment records obtained by Alpha News and reported by the Daily Mail show the county paid the firm a total of $513,223 through August 28, 2026, a figure roughly $88,000 higher than the $425,000 the county itself has acknowledged spending on Moriarty's detail. No one in county government has publicly explained what specific threats justified the…Open
A woman trespassed twice on former Vice President Kamala Harris' Malibu estate Friday night, months after President Trump revoked her extended Secret Service protection, leaving her guarded by a private detail. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies rushed to the $8.15 million property around 10:30 p.m. after Harris' private security team called in a suspicious person […] The post Trespasser breaches Kamala Harris' Malibu property after federal protection revoked appeared first on American Almanac .
A woman trespassed twice on former Vice President Kamala Harris' Malibu estate Friday night, months after President Trump revoked her extended Secret Service protection, leaving her guarded by a private detail. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies rushed to the $8.15 million property around 10:30 p.m. after Harris' private security team called in a suspicious person on the grounds, CBS News Los Angeles reported . The woman had arrived by Uber. Security stopped her before she reached the residence, and deputies advised her to leave. She complied, then came back a second time before finally departing voluntarily. Neither Harris nor her husband, former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, was home. Deputies took a trespassing report but made no…Open
Facing persistent homelessness and crime, Venice Beach residents and businesses are paying up to $300 a month for a private security team staffed by former gang members. NewsNation's Nancy Loo has more. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
About 20 U.S. airports rely on private security companies rather than the Transportation Security Administration to ensure that passengers and cargo comply with federal aviation safety standards.
Driven in part by the chaos of the last shutdown, the government is expanding efforts to use private security staff instead of federal employees at more airports.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) has privately hinted to colleagues that he was involved in dangerous private security work in Middle East war zones before running for Congress in 2012, according to three people who have heard him discuss it. Why it matters: It's a mystery likely to come up Wednesday at his Senate confirmation hearing, where he will face colleagues as President Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary. - There's no public record of Mullin — a former professional mixed martial arts fighter who sold his family's plumbing business in 2021 — doing the kind of security work he has alluded to in private. - But to former colleagues in the House, and on several other occasions, Mullin has…
The New York City Council is expected to overwhelmingly vote to create wage minimums for private security officers and lift the cap on street vendor licenses.
