Everyone here focused on the cash for some reason.
The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, the law enforcement source said.
The only saving grace is they can lock out that one badge. Hopefully she reported it quickly.
I fix cars at a big retail chain and yep. There’s instant verification now where in order to accept it we have to punch all the info into some service on the POS computer to make sure the check clears, but if it does, yeah we take those. Money is money. Checks are still issued and cashed by banks so we still take em.
Italy here, I handled lots of those when I had a business dealing with other businesses. Never for personal stuff, for that I’d have a cashier’s check printed at the bank
For me, I hand write checks weekly. That 3 percent credit card fee can add up quickly. Invoice me, and get the total payed at the end of the month.
Also handy for person to person transactions, where cash is impractical.
I do, they’re useful for tipping my hairdresser & the shampoo girl and I don’t want to remember to put one in my wallet each time, so I just keep a bunch in my wallet
There was a Twitter story where Elon fired so many Twitter folks that for a large window of time, a lot of things was available to the public because the person in charge was fired.
Joke aside, the access badge can be revoked immediately (unless Elon somehow fucked that up too). Locks can be changed (and she can probably have that done quickly by a security detail as well as a sweep of the apartment). Blank checks can be canceled at the bank (basically a bulk stop payment on the range of check numbers).
Passport may be a bigger concern, but for someone in a cabinet-level position, anyone attempting to use it would probably be questioned pretty thoroughly.
Everyone here focused on the cash for some reason.
The only saving grace is they can lock out that one badge. Hopefully she reported it quickly.
That’s assuming she’s honest. There could just as easily have a USB stick with confidential docs in it
No, selling the USB stick was where she got the $3000 cash.
Why? Any rando wandering in can’t be worse than the people who are already there.
I’m laughing at the idea of a hobo walking in smelling like piss and shit and wearing her badge, and staff going, “Morning Kristi!”.
“Have you noticed Kristi seems more like an actual human being than usual?”
She smells worse, but damned if she isn’t so much nicer.
Who the hell still carries around paper checks? I think I’ve written a total of 3 checks in the past 4-5 years, all for home service like plumbers.
Old people who wish to punish everyone else in line at the grocery store.
Big chains accept checks? 😳
I fix cars at a big retail chain and yep. There’s instant verification now where in order to accept it we have to punch all the info into some service on the POS computer to make sure the check clears, but if it does, yeah we take those. Money is money. Checks are still issued and cashed by banks so we still take em.
I’m european, born in the 90’s. I’ve never in my life seen a check in person… By the 00’s everyone either had a credit card or just used cash.
Italy here, I handled lots of those when I had a business dealing with other businesses. Never for personal stuff, for that I’d have a cashier’s check printed at the bank
It’s so she can write bad checks.
I write one check every month for my rent.
My hairdresser takes check or cash. No cards.
For me, I hand write checks weekly. That 3 percent credit card fee can add up quickly. Invoice me, and get the total payed at the end of the month. Also handy for person to person transactions, where cash is impractical.
That’s why I pay my rent with check, hand delivered to their office. That 3% is a significant chunk of money.
Do standing orders and Direct Debit not exist in the good ol’ USA?
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My therapist only takes cash or checks.
I do, they’re useful for tipping my hairdresser & the shampoo girl and I don’t want to remember to put one in my wallet each time, so I just keep a bunch in my wallet
The person who was responsible for locking out badges was let go last month.
There was a Twitter story where Elon fired so many Twitter folks that for a large window of time, a lot of things was available to the public because the person in charge was fired.
Implying it wasn’t staged
How could we forget about the makeup bag?
Joke aside, the access badge can be revoked immediately (unless Elon somehow fucked that up too). Locks can be changed (and she can probably have that done quickly by a security detail as well as a sweep of the apartment). Blank checks can be canceled at the bank (basically a bulk stop payment on the range of check numbers).
Passport may be a bigger concern, but for someone in a cabinet-level position, anyone attempting to use it would probably be questioned pretty thoroughly.
Elon Musky definitely fucked it up.
Oh no, not my prescription crack pipe!
Checks?! She have some clipped coupons in there too? Damn grandma.
She had a copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh on stone tablets she was reading.
Shouldn’t have to remind them, it’s literally DHS, but hope they shut down that badge’s access.
Most people would not have “quick” context for an “access badge”. But they do instantly understand “cash”.