Posted on 10/14/2009 12:42:21 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber' Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:42 AM By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch
A former contractor for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police has been charged with rummaging through state computers to retrieve confidential information about "Joe the Plumber."
Brett A. Gerke, 52, of 2329 Woodcreek Place on the Far North Side, is charged with attempted unauthorized use of property.
Gerke entered a diversion program on Oct. 2, which typically results in the dismissal of a criminal charge. He has not entered a plea. The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail.
The State Highway Patrol says that Gerke used a law-enforcement computer network on Oct. 16, 2008 to access personal information about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.
The Toledo-area resident was popularized as "Joe the Plumber" by Republican John McCain in a presidential debate the night before with Democrat Barack Obama.
Gerke was project manager in the development of the Ohio Local Law Enforcement Information Sharing Network, working on the project between 2004 and 2008 as a contractor for the police chiefs' association.
Gerke used a test account and password he received to work on the project to search for information on Wurzelbacher and others, authorities say.
He was working as a contractor for the Ohio Department of Insurance at the time of the computer checks. Gerke's lawyer, Joseph Scott of Columbus, would not comment on the case.
The Dispatch revealed several questionable checks of state computer systems for confidential information about Wurzelbacher after the presidential debate.
Helen Jones-Kelley, then director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, authorized several computer checks on Wurzelbacher that the state inspector general concluded had no legal purpose.
Jones-Kelley, who was suspended by Gov. Ted Strickland after The Dispatch also revealed that she used her state e-mail account to raise campaign funds for Obama, later resigned. Two of her top aides also lost their jobs.
Wurzelbacher has filed a federal lawsuit against Jones-Kelley and her two former aides seeking damages for violation of his privacy. The former state employees deny any wrongdoing.
Just imagine what Obamah’s Comrades in the FBI, CIA & State Dept are doing!
Obama thug spies on ordinary citizens-—just beyond contempt.
So now they call Worthington the “Far North Side?”
One saving grace of the State Department is that they couldn't find their bare asses in the dark with both hands because their hiring system is so effective in screening out anyone who doesn't fit their mold.
To the Clintonville and Gerbil Village crowds, it probably is. My definition of the "Far North Side" is the intersection of Powell Rd and US-23.
Somebody put this guy up to this spying on a private cirizen, can’t Joe sue this sucker until he squeals?
Glad to see pursuit of criminal activity via investigations, resignations, firings and hopefully charges filed. In days gone by in our former Republic, accessing databases on LE computers for “fishing expeditions” carried a heavy penalty when not for official purposes. We’ll see how this pans out.
just being a good lil’ union stooge.
Obama holds a grudge worse than the Clintons ever did.
There are millions of these little liberals who use their access to sensitive information to get something on normal people that they can use against them when the need arises.
You are 100% correct....and the little bastards are everywhere too! A few of them should be hung by their thumbs and all of this kind of stuff might stop. I don’t ever trust anybody who uses two last names anyway, because that is telling me they are uber-liberals, and most likely evil too.
“Obama holds a grudge worse than the Clintons ever did.”
That is saying a lot.
On a side note - some cultures use two last names and some of them are conservative.
Heinz-Kerry? :@D
...and some are not conservative, lol.
Isn’t that the outfit that distributed the 'Right-Wing Extremism' Report?
What outfit did that?
DHS I think. And then wasn’t there was some kind of underreported “apology”?
A former contractor for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police... Brett A. Gerke, 52, of 2329 Woodcreek Place on the Far North Side, is charged with attempted unauthorized use of property. Gerke entered a diversion program on Oct. 2, which typically results in the dismissal of a criminal charge. He has not entered a plea. The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail... Gerke's lawyer, Joseph Scott of Columbus, would not comment on the case... Helen Jones-Kelley, then director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, authorized several computer checks on Wurzelbacher that the state inspector general concluded had no legal purpose. Jones-Kelley, who was suspended by Gov. Ted Strickland after The Dispatch also revealed that she used her state e-mail account to raise campaign funds for Obama, later resigned. Two of her top aides also lost their jobs. Wurzelbacher has filed a federal lawsuit against Jones-Kelley and her two former aides seeking damages for violation of his privacy. The former state employees deny any wrongdoing.
A little digging and who knows what SHE could reveal about the skunks who are railroading her?
By the time this settles?
There could be an awful big transfer of wealth from the quislings to conservatives.
I meant to make that a bit clearer, yeah, no doubt “fishing expeditions” actually means “I don’t have any PC (probable cause) yet but give me a minute...”.
Seriously, it was interesting that in that last few years a disclaimer was always at the bottom of every NCIC (and other) database queries of the LE net warning about unauthorized searches of people’s crime history or personal data of any kind.
I noticed a tightening up of that which was good, now I’m out of it, thank God, and I mean that. Had enough.
And now? I cringe at the possibilities going on, no more checks and balances with the Dems in control, open criminals in key positions and gutless, spineless Republicans who have squandered away all the wonderful victories we gave them long ago.
Right.
The way I see it, the reports is what they really think...
Unless qualifications, experience and demeanor are absolutely sterling, the hiring of babes with hyphenated surnames should be avoided.
This is probably a silly arguement, but I don’t see what a hyphenated name has to do with anything related to politics or intelligence. SOmetimes we can have preconceived ideas about things that are unfounded and create unncessary judgements. Judging how someone decides to use their last name is personal and private and I don’t think we should judge into people’s private lives, especially on something that is really none of anyone’s business but who owns the name.
Then it must be Holly-Bee......;>)
Hmmm...Maybe I”ll call myself HollyBB. ; )
Joe, a hard working American, who had a question for a nasty little man running for president. Nailing the liberal union thug who did this to him would be great. There were others involved as we all know, in the persecution of Joe, all gov’t workers paid by taxpayers to destroy a taxpayer for a crooked politician.
Joe and Sarah are on the side of goodness and they will prevail. Evil always loses eventually, even if it’s not until the evil face their Maker.
Amen!
My sister-in-law and I share the same first and last name, and we are both writers, so we hyphenated our last names to distinguish ourselves from the other. We have very different writing styles and very different political views (I'm uber-conservative and she's independent).
After I got married, I dropped the hyphen and took my husband's name (and rightfully so!); however, when I write, I still use it.
>Just imagine what Obamah’s Comrades in the FBI, CIA & State Dept are doing!
Obama has Comarades in the CIA?
I'm praying a patriotic whistle-blower will reveal some College documents that Rock the Obamah World.
>I’m praying a patriotic whistle-blower will reveal some College documents that Rock the Obamah World.
I’m not sure that they exist [anymore]... well, I’ll put it this way, if it doesn’t come out by the January [?] 2010 trial concerning Obama’s eligibility then I don’t think it ever will. {If I had such documents I’d be holding onto them, in secret, until then and then during the trial which would hopefully be live-televised across the nation, present them to the judge & jury in-person. That is to say I would be waiting until the point where anything happens that smells of impropriety would be looked at good and hard by more than just conspiracy theorists.}
“The former state employees deny any wrongdoing.”
A most convenient political gambit; deny, deny, deny.
IMHO
That is saying a lot.
Any body put together a list of dead former Obama associates?
To put it another way is their any evidence of Obamacide?
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