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Posted on 11/07/2009 4:27:49 PM PST by Jean S
NEW ORLEANS – State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans.
"This is an investigation of everything — ACORN, the national organization, the local organization and all of its affiliated entities, specifically as it relates to any potential violations of Louisiana law," Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said.
ACORN staff on the scene declined to comment, but an attorney for the group said in a statement the raid was prompted by allegations that former ACORN employees had removed or altered electronic documents and may do so in the future.
Attorney Pamela Marple said ACORN was cooperating and called the raid exhaustive, saying investigators wanted "virtually every document in the possession of ACORN and any related entity
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“allegations that former ACORN employees had removed or altered electronic documents and may do so in the future.”
Really? Duh!
FINALLY! Get ready to see grand juries start indicting PLENTY of these rats! Politicians BEWARE!!!!
I wonder if CRABS eat hard drives?
anyone else would have had sense enough to delete/destroy any incriminating computer stuff. But with ACORN, the odds are pretty good that this is not a complete waste of time.
Please understand that nothing will be found on these hard drives as this investigation has been public for months. I’m computer stupid, but I can remove, replace, and destroy old HD it 7 minutes, the majority of the time spent turning the old HD into slag.
Way to go, Louisiana Attorney General!
And in the end, the conclusion will be that ACORN didn’t break any laws and in fact, wasn’t effective enough, so therefore their funding should be increased. And their computer equipment should be replaced, by placing multiple purchase orders to somebody’s newly-established-and-never- wrote-a-stick-of-business before this computer store for $3,700 desktop PCs, ordinary XT boxes, $2200 laser printers, and they should also be permanently funded to keep 2 network engineers on call at $175 an hour each, to maintain said gear. The old gear will be recycled and the government will pay $275 per item to offset dump fees plus $580 to a newly-established local delivery service belonging to an ACORN member to bring the 6 PCs to the newly-established recycling center, also owned by an ACORN member. Because the newer, larger LCD screens will not fit in the same footprint of the older CRTs they had, every ACORN administrator will need a new desk, credenza, and Aeron chairs, ordered from another crony’s office supply and furniture store, roughly $13,350 each. And then there’s the cursed lighting, which will have to be replaced by the latest commercial-grade Lightolier fixtures at roughly $600 each, not incuding installation at $1350. each. Although these use less power than the older lighting fixtures, the upgrades will require permits, and the permits will require their offices be rewired at a cost of about $55,000. each, and then the fixtures will have to be reinstalled, another $1350. each. During the course of the installation, an electrician will fall off a ladder and sue the Werner Ladder company for $2.3 million because the ladder didn’t have a sticker on it that warned of the effects of gravity. An ACORN attorney will handle the case. Also during the installation, ACORN will insist on a $3.5 million set-aside to train low-income disadvantaged youths to perform electrical work, to be called “Light up the Night for Obama. One or more will begin their apprenticeships on rewiring the ACORN offices but the program will suffer a delay when all the electricians’ tools are stolen in a break-in one night for which nobody will be arrested or prosecuted. The building will probably catch fire due to wiring errors or shoddy workmanship, and the ACORN offices will have to be temporarily relocated to other quarters, renting for $4,500 a month, to be paid for out of highway trust funds.
Do I have it about right?
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Alright, ADS! Time to let the sun shine on you. YOU are member of the Landrieu Political Machine.
ROFLMAO!!!! Your discription of LA body politic is dead-the-hell-on.
Looking forward to hearing Glenn talk about this on Monday when he returns from his sick leave.
Crappola.
Obozo will protect his own.
There are some technical ways that they can still recover data from the hard drives even if the files have been deleted or the hard drives destroyed. Depends on how thorough and technical they investigate these drives. Personally, I hope the use all available resources in the investigation.
However, I am worried that they will not and that this is another Dog and Pony show or a way for them to tell the American people that they investigated them and found nothing.
Any bets that Wade and Dale have COMPLETE copies of ALL records!
I think that they do, but the question is where are they hiding it?
“I think these slimeballs deserve this: First, ask them nicely for the information. If they refuse to answer the questions I suggest the following approach: Start with “waterboarding” and if that doesn’t work, duct tape some bare electrical wires to their “tenders” and start to give them a little current! They should begin to speak freely shortly thereafter!”
I agree with this except I support starting with the water and the jolts...then asking the questions.
“Totally true - info is never really gone, it’s there in the drive for now on. There would have to be complete, catastrophic destruction of the media itself to put it beyond reach. The question would be if the computers still contained any drives that ever held any work of interest from any time in the past.”
That is very true. There is the possibility that they swapped out computers or hardware components. However, if they investigate hard enough they could find falsified dates on their records.
Any hard drive that I have replaced have been melted to slag with a cutting torch. I take them and melt them into a heap of molten metals that slowly cool into a disk of scrap. Destruction of a hard drive takes less than 3 minutes.
The fact that investigation started months ago yells “Dog and Pony”.
All those receiving the funds will be somehow related to the political “leaders”.
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