check'd
from Anon's link:
BUFFALO, NY– Congressman Chris Collins is facing insider trading charges and was arrested by the FBI Wednesday morning.
He is also accused of lying to FBI.
Collins, along with his son Cameron Collins and Stephen Zarsky, the father of Cameron Collin's fiancee, are being processed by the FBI in Manhattan.
An ethics investigation was launched last year looking into Congressman Chris Collins' role in luring investors to an Australian biotech company.
moar:
Rep. Chris Collins’s advocacy for biotech company was problematic, House ethics watchdog finds:
The New York Republican was an early backer of Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian firm that was developing a new therapy for multiple sclerosis, and recruited investors that included family, his congressional staff and House colleagues — including Tom Price, who later served as Department of Health and Human Services secretary.
www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/rep-chris-collinss-advocacy-for-biotech-company-broke-rules-house-ethics-watchdog-finds/2017/10/12/594988fe-af74-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.ca1648c5ed75
Still trying to figure out why they don't want police/fire/EMT to move off a crowded spectrum…???
Legislation:
www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Don't%20Break%20Up%20the%20T-Band%20Act.pdf
Senator Markey Introduces ‘Don’t Break Up the T-Band’ Act to Protect First Responders’ Spectrum
“Public safety and American taxpayers have invested wisely to build out T-Band land mobile radio networks to meet mission critical voice requirements of major metropolitan jurisdictions across the country,” said Chief Tom Jenkins, President and Chairman of the Board at the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). “In addition, these LMR networks provide the option for off-network unit-to-unit operations, local control, specialized operations such as paging for volunteer firefighters, and regional interoperability in large metropolitan areas. This is why the IAFC strongly supports the Don’t Break Up the T Band Act.”
framinghamsource.com/index.php/2018/08/02/senator-markey-introduces-dont-break-up-the-t-band-act-to-protect-first-responders-spectrum/
I wonder if this has something to do with 9/11…
One of the major issues was that first responders still can’t communicate with one another.
Amid the chaos of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, emergency responders found there was a serious lack of communication.
Several big wireless carriers have supported auctioning off the airwaves to the wireless industry, a move that the government has estimated would raise about $3.1 billion. That could help pay to build a public safety communications network.
newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/01/10-years-after-911-first-responders-radios-still-not-connected-report-finds/
Gnarly!
me too
moar
9/11 related - 'member when rescuers had comm fubars?
FATAL CONFUSION: A Troubled Emergency Response; 9/11 Exposed Deadly Flaws In Rescue Plan
On Friday, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said the city intended to create a radio channel that could be shared by police officers and firefighters, among other changes. There is no question there were communications problems at this catastrophic incident, he said.
www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/nyregion/fatal-confusion-troubled-emergency-response-9-11-exposed-deadly-flaws-rescue.html
Motorola
something's fucky with all these Motorola radios for rescue personnel:
“No firefighter should have to die because of a radio that doesn’t work,” said Arlene Zang, Broxterman’s mother and a firefighter herself, while conceding that other factors influenced the tragedy.
Many of the nation’s biggest fire departments, spooked by allegations that Motorola’s digital radio failures contributed to the deaths of at least five firefighters, the disabling of a sixth and scores of close calls, have limited use of the glitzy gadgets acquired in a post-Sept. 11 emergency-communications spending splurge.
The headlong, federally backed push to buy tens of billions of dollars in digital equipment, including radios priced as high as $6,000 each, gained momentum despite the lack of any government standard ensuring that they’ll perform for firefighters.
Multiple investigations and tests have since found flaws in the equipment made by Motorola and its rivals.
Fire departments in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Phoenix and Boise, Idaho — communities that have spent tens of millions of dollars on the new equipment — are so leery of problems that they won’t use digital radios at fire scenes.
Boston firefighters “are not to use digital radios,” said Joseph Brooks, radio supervisor for the city’s Fire Department. “They don’t have them because I said no.”
blog.tcomeng.com/index.php/2011/firefighters-still-balk-at-new-digital-radios/