[molecule]

whether it was blogged about or not, it seems like this author obtaining and reporting so much internal detail about this incident is an incident unto itself.

also, his shilling herein for TSA and Jet Blue smells like a conflict of interest:

Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is... airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines...

[moocowduckquack]

I popped his name into google to see what else he did. Judging from the autocomplete he appears to have pissed off some people previously.

[wpietri]

Holy crap! There is even a blog where somebody disgruntled chronicles all his alleged misdeeds: http://fishfraud.blogspot.com/

Some articles that caught my eye: http://fishfraud.blogspot.com/p/about-fishfraud.html http://fishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/11/projectweddingcom-revi... http://fishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/11/warning-to-national-me... http://fishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/11/steven-frischling-in-c... http://fishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/11/yelpcom-reviews-in-all...

I've checked the news articles, and it seems like the guy was indeed arrested for forgery and fraud, and ended up in a pre-trial diversion program for first-time offenders.

I had just assumed that this guy was just writing down what officials told him, but if 1/10th of the allegations on the blog are true, then maybe he just made up all of his supposed statements.

[ballard]

Good work.

Great claims require great evidence. It could be a jilted lover or frmr business partner.... Who knows. Are there any public records which support this counter-blogger's claims?

The other thought is: does the original blogger have any hard evidence beyond nitpicking and counter-claims provided by JetBlue to trash our traveler?

[wpietri]

There are public records about how many times the guy has been sued that are linked. And the news articles about the fraud case seem real enough.

[ballard]

Second link from the bottom. I looked around at the others but didn't see much support material.

[MrMan]

Frischling's credibility is way below zero. He almost surely fabricated all the details about his TSA sources.