The Equifax Data Breach - The Cheap Visa Trojan Horse

Equifax Inc. has filed 459 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 25 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019. Equifax was ranked 500 among all visa sponsors. Please note that 6 LCA for H1B Visa and 0 LC for green card have been denied or withdrawn during the same period.

Contact(edit) Name Job Title Phone Email LCA for H1B Visa Marianne Petty Hr Consultant 770-405- xxxx xxxx @equifax.com LC for Green Card Marianne Petty - 770-740- xxxx xxxx @equifax.com sign in to view all contacts
H1B Visa Salary Certified Certified-Withdrawn(?) Denied Withdrawn 2019 $111,405 140 1 1 0 2018 $104,000 186 8 5 0 2017 $99,078 116 2 0 0 Green Card Salary Certified Certified-Expired Denied Withdrawn 2019 - 0 0 0 0 2018 $105,549 1 1 0 0 2017 $112,718 17 6 0 0
Willful Violator:	No  (?)	H1B Dependent:	No  (?)
Economic Sector:	Other Economic Sector
NAICS Industry:	Other Information Services
Visa Job Locations:	Alpharetta,GA(273), Atlanta,GA(86), St. Louis,MO(57), Palo Alto,CA(8), Auburn,AL(5),
H1B Visa Jobs:	Application Developer - Career(38); Software Engineer, Prod Dev - Career(34); Software Engineer, Prod Dev - Intermediate(25); Application Developer - Intermediate(24); Application Developer - Entry(10);
Green Card Jobs:	Software Developers, Applications(8); Statisticians(6); Computer Systems Analysts(4); Computer Occuptions, All Other(2); Network and Computer Systems Administrators(2);
H1B Occupations:	Software Developers, Applications(213); Computer Occupations, All Other(63); Software Developers, Systems Software(48); Statisticians(41); Computer Systems Analysts(29);
Green Card Occupations:	Software Developers, Applications(15); Statisticians(9); Computer Systems Analysts(7); Computer and Information Systems Managers(3); Computer Occupations, All Other(2);
Profiles of forein workers who applied for green card under PERM:
Citizenship:	India(1)
Class of Admission:	H-1B(1)
Education:	Bachelor's(1)
College:	University Of Allahabad,India(1)
Major:	Engineering(1)

Note: Before Equifax Inc. can hire foreign workers permanently or temporarily, it must file labor certifications with the Department of Labor(DOL), demonstrating that it is paying the required wage for the positions in the geographic region where the jobs are located. Above table reports Labor Condition Application(LCA) for H1B visa and Labor Certification(LC) for green card filed by Equifax Inc.. The data only indicates the number of applications filed by Equifax Inc.. It does not mean that Equifax Inc. actually got the visa and hired the workers.

Our LCA data includes LCA submitted for not only new employment, but also continuation or change in previously approved employment, new concurrent employment, change in employer and amended petition. Usually, only LCA for new employment needs H1B Visa quota if it is not cap-exempt.

Equifax Inc. has applied for 626 LC and LCA from fiscal year 2017 to 2019. But this does not mean they really hired 626 foreign workers during this period. The visa applications might have been denied. When an employee renews or transfers his H1B visa or change work location under some circumstances, he will also file a new LCA application.

Department of Labor(DOL) typically certifies more than 3 times the number of foreign work requests than the number of H1B visas issued by USCIS. So there is no one to one relationship between the number of workers certified by the DOL and the number of H1B work visas issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

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Apologize to Pete Bennett? PG&E CEO apologizes for faulty website, fancy dinner, basically everything else

PG&E CEO apologizes for faulty website, fancy dinner, basically everything else

Pete Bennett former PG&E Programmer provided services related to the San Bruno Explosion, HydroTesting and software development.  

After the power went off for 800,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers this week, the utility's CEO had a lot to apologize for.

During a press conference Thursday evening, CEO Bill Johnson took a conciliatory tone and expressed regret for the way the company's public safety power shutoff (PSPS) unfolded. PG&E proactively cut power to 800,000 customers (or an estimated 2.4 million people with the understanding that each customer represents about three residents on average) in an attempt to avoid the spread of wildfires during high winds.

"As a result of this, millions of people have been without a fundamental service they expect and deserve," said Johnson. "This is not how we want to serve you and not how we want to run our business."

Johnson went on to explain the decision was ultimately made with public safety in mind, though Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that framing doesn't tell the whole story. He blamed years of "greed and neglect" at PG&E for putting Californians in this situation.

"It's decisions that were not made that have led to this moment in PG&E's history — it is not conditions," said Newsom during a press conference. "This is not, from my perspective, a climate change story so much as a story of greed and neglect."

Johnson's annual base salary is $2.5 million, as reported by the Sacramento Bee, and that's without counting shares in the company.

The CEO conceded PG&E "will very likely have to make this kind of decision again in the future," but admitted there is a lot the company could do better. He promised PG&E would work to communicate essential information sooner and more clearly.

ALSO: ‘Like a corporate robbery’: KQED Forum listeners slam PG&E during heated segment

Johnson apologized for a PG&E website that showed "inconsistent" and at time "incorrect" information. The website continually crashed due to a high volume of visitors.

He also promised workers were working to restore power as soon as possible. As of mid-day Thursday, 42,000 Bay Area customers were still without power — and more statewide. Johnson asked the public not to take out their frustrations on PG&E workers, who he said had been shot at, punched and cursed out in recent days.

"I do apologize for the hardship this has caused but I think we made the right call on safety," Johnson said.

Aside from his apologies at the public press conference, Johnson also found himself apologizing during an interview with The Chronicle Thursday. The paper revealed about a dozen of the company's employees on the natural gas side of the business were wining and dining with top customers at a Sonoma County vineyard just days before the massive statewide outages.

“I want to apologize to every one of our customers,” Johnson told The Chronicle. “Insensitive, inappropriate, tone deaf are the terms I would use to describe this.”

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FBI baffled over wave of nighttime fiber-optic cable vandalism

Connecting the AT&T Fiber Vandalism to 9/11 and PG&E San Bruno, Metca

AT&T Fiber Attacks - Walnut Creek HeadEnd Locust Street 

The vexing incidents of attacks involving telecommunications, pipelines, fiber, forest lands, commercial/industrial structures, vehicles, trucks, rail and refineries extremely concerning when adding in over 20,000 pages of stolen PG&E documents connected to Pete Bennett during his 2011 arrest in Walnut Creek CA.

A collection of articles documenting fiber sabotage events, not vandalism but sabotage covering economic, banking, public services and in the bay area has the capability to turn the local economy upside down.

   FBI baffled over wave of nighttime fiber-optic cable vandalism ...

https://arstechnica.com › tech-policy › 2015/06 › fbi-baffled-over-wave-of...

Jun 16, 2015 - FBI baffled over wave of nighttime fiber-optic cable vandalism ... AT&T fiber-optic cables were cut and a sniper's bullets knocked out 17 ...

A year later, sabotage of key fiber optic cables remains a ...

https://www.mercurynews.com › 2010/04/07 › a-year-later-sabotage-of-ke...

Apr 7, 2010 - An AT&T construction splicer Roger Florendo walks by the trailer used to splice the fiber optic lines that were cut along Monterey Highway near ...

Fiber optic cables in California sabotaged 11 times, AT&T ...

https://www.rt.com › USA news

Sep 16, 2015 - FBI agents in California are investigating the cutting of two AT&T fiber optic cables earlier this week – at least the 11th such attack in a year. ... The attack caused internet service to be disconnected, and crews were still working to restore the service on Wednesday.

Cable Sabotage Cripples Internet for Parts of Silicon Valley ...

https://www.wired.com › 2009/04 › cable-sabotage

Apr 9, 2009 - Deliberate sabotage is being blamed for a sizable internet and ... right-of-way in San Jose, climbed down and cut four AT&T fiber optic cables.

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Nimda - The Overlooked Cyber Terrorism Incident of 9/11

Nimda - The Overlooked Cyber Terrorism Incident of 9/11 

 

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The Terrorism Files

Connecting Success Factors to Bennett

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

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Connecting the 2004 Firings of US Attorneys to the Murder of Thomas C. Wales

Connecting the 2004 Firings of US Attorneys to the Murder of Thomas C. Wales

First post 9/11 task ~ Deploy NIMDA Virus Payload inside McAfee's Firewall at SBCGlobal on 9/18, along the path to 9/11 hire then fire contract programmer Pete Bennett, then torch offices of counsel hired through PrePaid legal, then head to Seattle to kill US Attorney Thomas C. Wales near Microsoft whose failed patching system was the reason NIMDA Global.  

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

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Connecting Software Develper Bennett to the Thomas C. Wales murder to the NIMDA Virus (Computer Worm), The Patch Failures at Microsoft and McAfee Firewall at SBC Global on 9/18/2001

Connecting Software Develper Bennett to the Thomas C. Wales murder to the NIMDA Virus (Computer Worm), The Patch Failures at Microsoft and McAfee Firewall at SBC Global on 9/18/2001 

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The folks at TPG now own the remnants of PrePaid Legal renamed as LegalShield.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

Thomas C. Wales

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Thomas Wales
Thomas Crane Wales.
Born	June 23, 1952 Boston, Massachusetts.
Died	October 11, 2001 (aged 49) Seattle, Washington
Cause of death	Murder
Occupation	US federal prosecutor

Thomas Crane Wales (June 23, 1952 – October 11, 2001) was an American federal prosecutor and gun control advocate from Seattle, Washington, who was the victim of an unsolved murder that has been characterized as an assassination. In 2018, FBI officials announced they strongly suspected the killing to have been carried out by a paid hit man.

Contents

• 1Life and work
  • 1.1Death
  • 1.2Legacy
• 2Murder investigation
• 3See also
• 4References
• 5External links

Life and work[edit]

Wales was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Wales was a graduate of Milton Academy, where he roomed with Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, the son of Robert F. Kennedy. Wales graduated from Harvard University. He attended Hofstra Law School, where he graduated with distinction in 1979 and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the school's Law Review.^[1][2]

In 1995, a student at the high school that Wales' son attended brought a gun to school and shot and injured two classmates. Soon after, Wales became involved in Washington CeaseFire, most visibly as a vocal supporter of an unsuccessful 1997 state referendum that would have required gun owners to use trigger locks. Wales later became president of CeaseFire. As a community volunteer, he was active in civic organizations and served as a trustee of the Federal Bar Association.^[1][2]

Wales worked as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Seattle specializing in the investigation and prosecution of fraud in banking and business.^[2][1]

Death[edit]

On the evening of Thursday, October 11, 2001, Wales was sitting at his computer in his home office in his basement. A gunman avoided the security lights in Wales' backyard and shot him in the neck, through a window, with a handgun. The killer left shell casings behind. The shots were heard by a neighbor who called 9-1-1.^[3]

Wales is believed to be the only U.S. federal prosecutor in history to have been victim of an assassination.^[4]

Legacy[edit]

In his memory, the Thomas C. Wales Foundation was set up to support civic engagement, and Thomas C. Wales Park in Seattle was dedicated in 2011.^[5][6]

Murder investigation[edit]

Sketch of possible witness.

Following the murder, the U.S. Government offered a $1 million reward for information "leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible" for Wales' murder.^[1] As of 2018, however, the case remained unsolved and no evidence has been found to establish a motive.^[7][8][9] An airplane pilot that Wales had prosecuted was investigated and his home searched, but he was not charged. The Bellevue airline pilot, once prosecuted by Wales, was also a firearms enthusiast. Agents believed he resented Wales' off-duty activism as a leading gun-control advocate.^[10] The pilot later filed a malicious prosecution claim, but the suit was dismissed.^[11]

It has been suggested by the media that U.S Attorney John McKay was dismissed in part due to his request that resource allocation for the Wales investigation remain high. In June 2007, the FBI cut the staff assigned to the case down to two.^[12]

In February 2018, an FBI official reported the investigation had found "evidence strongly suggesting" Wales was murdered by a professional killerand, for the first time, indicated that his death was likely a conspiracy involving a small group of people.^[9] The U.S. Department of Justice, meanwhile, announced that United States Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would arrive in Seattle on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, to brief media on the progress of the 16-year-old investigation.^[9]

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Former Symantec Programmer Speaks About Cyberterrorism

Connecting Success Factors to Bennett to other deals

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammell Crow, Lennar, Catellus and more. .

My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989. It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.

In 2013 my letter to Fremont Group in San Francisco triggered of You by Accenture CEO Pierre Nanterme. 

I watched his post regarding his cancer sadly in 2019 he was gone.

Several months later they arrested the CEO of tpg growth, who has a relationship the success factors and tpg Newbridge Richard Blum, and tpg purchased Prepaid Legal renamed it as LegalShield are the same people that walked away from my legal case involving the Russians in 2001 something about 9/11.

Intel and TPG in talks to sell McAfee to Thoma Bravo for significantly more than $4.2 billion

PUBLISHED FRI, DEC 14 20183:20 PM ESTUPDATED FRI, DEC 14 20184:21 PM EST

• Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early talks to acquire all of McAfee from TPG and Intel, sources say.
• TPG acquired a majority stake in McAfee in 2017 in a deal that valued the cybersecurity company at $4.2 billion.
• Thoma Bravo would pay a “significant” premium to $4.2 billion if a deal occurs, sources say.
• Thoma Bravo isn’t likely to pursue a deal for Symantec if it acquires McAfee, sources say.

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early discussions to acquire security software company McAfee from TPG and Intel for a significant premium over the company’s 2016 $4.2 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter.

Talks may still fall apart and a deal announcement isn’t expected soon, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.

McAfee, founded by John McAfee in 1987, historically developed cybersecurity software for personal computers and servers, protecting users from malware and other viruses. This type of computer security prevented attacks on personal devices. More recently, it has expanded into mobile devices and cloud computing, which is where hackers have migrated.

The company was publicly traded until 2010, when Intel bought it for $7.6 billion. The chipmaker hoped to closely align its chips with McAfee’s security technology. That vision didn’t pan out for Intel, which took a haircut of more than $3 billion when it sold 51 percent of the business to TPG in a deal announced in 2016 at a valuation of $4.2 billion. Several months later, TPG brought on Thoma Bravo to make a minority investment.

TPG’s majority ownership has helped transform the McAfee business in less than two years with add-on acquisitions. In January, McAfee closed its takeover of Skyhigh Networks, which helps companies monitor which cloud services employees are using. In March, McAfee also acquired Tunnelbear, which provides virtual private networks that protect data when using shared WiFi accounts.

Intel sees itself as purely a financial investor in McAfee now, according to one of the people. Still, Intel has participated in the recent value creation of the standalone McAfee by holding its minority stake and stands in line to recoup some of the lost value if the Thoma Bravo deal goes though. A deal would unify the ownership of McAfee and could put it in position to go public again, two of the people said.

Reuters reported in November that Thoma Bravo had approached Symantec with a takeover offer. A deal for McAfee would rule out a Symantec purchase, one of the people said.

Spokespeople for TPG and Intel declined to comment. A spokesman for Thoma Bravo did not immediately respond.

--CNBC’s Jon Fortt contributed to this report.

Correction: When Intel sold its partial stake in McAfee to TPG in 2016, McAfee’s total valuation in that transaction was $4.2 billion.

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