Posted on 12/19/2008 1:30:08 PM PST by Smokeyblue
The Obama campaign and Strickland administration both deny involvement in the "Joe the Plumber" background check, but Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien still is examining Helen Jones-Kelley's phone records to see who she spoke with around the time when her office accessed confidential state records.
Jones-Kelley resigned Wednesday as director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. However, she still could face criminal charges for authorizing the improper search of computer databases.
The probe into a private citizen's confidential records ignited a furor across the country when it was revealed by The Dispatch.
O'Brien said he is reviewing phone records to determine who Jones-Kelley spoke to both before and after the Oct. 16 check.
"I'm looking at calls made and received by a number of people," O'Brien said yesterday.
Jones-Kelley, a Democrat, said that no one from Barack Obama's campaign or Gov. Ted Strickland's administration instructed her to make the check of child-support, welfare and unemployment records.
"She was contacted by no one with any political requests whatsoever," said H. Ritchey Hollenbaugh, Jones-Kelley's attorney.
She and Hollenbaugh met yesterday with O'Brien and have been cooperating in the probe.
"He asked Helen to provide information with respect to certain phone numbers, which she has done," Hollenbaugh said.
O'Brien, a Republican, said he has made no decision about whether criminal charges will be filed.
State phone records obtained by The Dispatch showed that Jones-Kelley made few calls from her desk phone, and none appeared suspicious.
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So now it's not what's right nor what's illegal, it's the political affiliation of those bringing the charges. Class warfare.
1939...."In other news today, the Jews have brought charges against the Aryan race for "supposed" transgressions against them".
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This is good news.
“Jones-Kelley resigned Wednesday as director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. However, she still could face criminal charges for authorizing the improper search of computer databases.”
Finally, some of these insider operatives and leakers of confidential information begin to pay a price. Many more to go.
How’s that investigation at the Toledo PD going?
Sorry, that is next month.
Someone has already been named as a suspect, possibly charged or indicted. From what I understand, it was a woman who worked in TPD records and had given information to the local NBC affiliate. She has allegedly admitted to at least this. Friends (who live in TOL) said that it's disappeared from local newspaper and television coverage.
This will teach the unwashed masses in the proletariat to dare question their leaders.
Let this be a lesson to all.
I assume the answer is no, but did McCain say or do anything to help Joe?
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