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deminks

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Tue May 8, 2018, 06:38 AM May 2018

Rash Limbaugh brags about police escort - PA top cop resigns

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/top-cop-at-port-authority-retires-rush-limbaugh-police-escort-revealed.html


The top law enforcement official in the scandal-wracked Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced his retirement Monday, three weeks after radio host Rush Limbaugh bragged that the official personally gave him a police escort from an area airport.

The retirement by Police Superintendent Michael Fedorko, effective immediately, is just the latest black eye for the Port Authority, which operates three major regional airports, the George Washington Bridge, the World Trade Center site in New York and other transportation facilities.


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Fedorko's own exit after nine years as superintendent also came after the PA launched an internal probe, this time over Limbaugh's on-air boast on April 13 that he had received a lights-and-sirens escort from agency police the prior night.

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"So they sent the superintendent of the Port Authority to Newark to meet me for lights and sirens into Manhattan to make sure I got there in time. And we did," Limbaugh said, according to a transcript of his show April 13.

The Port Authority did not respond to CNBC's query about whether Fedorko's retirement was triggered by the preferred treatment for Limbaugh.

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I'd like to see........... MyOwnPeace May 2018 #1
So limpbaugh got him fired? Cha May 2018 #2
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