Posted on 09/27/2005 12:17:49 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
Live conference...
Chicago is being investigated. Indictments already there.
I don't recall finding a name other than Accardo. Accardo's wife was reported as attending his funeral.
The identity and function of the second officer seems to be patrol, as chief spokesman, Accardo is more likely to be an "aide to Compass."
Accardo, 36, was one of two city cops who committed suicide last week as New Orleans descended into an abyss of death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. He was found in an unmarked patrol car Saturday in a downtown parking lot.Back when life was normal and structured, Accardo served as one of the police department's chief spokesmen. He reported murders, hostage situations and rapes in measured words, his bespectacled face benign and familiar on the nightly news.
According to the obituary in the Advocate of Baton Rouge, Accardo left a wife, Anne; his mother, Catherine; a brother; a sister; and eight nieces and nephews.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478736/posts
The storm's emotional toll on the city's residents has not spared its police force. Two officers committed suicide, one of them after finding his family dead in his shattered home.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479975/posts
[I'm not confident in this report .. but there it is, no name attached]
Police Superintendent Eddie Compass said that two of his officers committed suicide, including one who had discovered his wife had died.http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/04/katrina.impact/
[Hmmm ... first time I've seen this one - still no name associated with it.]
Police officials did not identify the officers who took their lives, one on Saturday and the other the day before. But they said one had been a patrol officer, who a senior officer said "was absolutely outstanding." The other was an aide to Mr. Compass. The superintendent said his aide had lost his home in the hurricane and had been unable to find his family.http://officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=15&id=25777
Accardo - who also lost his home in the flood waters - looked like a zombie, like someone who hadn't slept in year, Defillo said. But so did all the others on the force. Some have failed to report for duty, while others have turned in their badges. Vacations and counseling were ordered for those who have remained.http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5258877,00.html
Here's one witnessed
http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4064798,00.html
To get a paycheck, a cop had to have had a social security number and a bank account to deposit the check into. An employed real person in these days will have a paper trail: credit cards, bank accounts, loans, etc.
A fake person who just drew a paycheck but having no other electronic existence will show up quickly
Its the kind of thing that you can get away with in a corrupt environment where coverup is endemic and reaches to the top. It is not the sort of thing that can stand up to intense scrutiny
Yahoo named the other one. I posted the text and link on the 3rd or 4th. Digging through old stuff now. It was on one of the Katrina live threads.
I found an article. Thanks. Excerpts below ...
Lawrence Celestine was the first officer to take his own life since the storm, police officers said. News of his death came Friday. Accardo's came next, sometime early Saturday morning, when he shot himself in the head in a parking lot in St. Charles Parish, two parishes west of this still flooded city.Accardo, an affable man who had a gentle manner about him, even on murder scenes, was a department veteran who worked as a patrolman in Lakeview and the French Quarter. He jumped at the chance to move to the public affairs office about four years ago and was generally respected by both reporters and police officers.
Wilson said Accardo and his wife had separated a few months back, and Accardo was in a ''fragile" state. In the middle of last week, when a police officer was shot, he was unable to take notes on the scene -- something that was routine for Accardo, Wilson said.
''He was trying to write, and he couldn't write. He couldn't speak normally, you know? And I made him sit down in the car," Wilson said. ''Paul just didn't have it. I could see it."
Chief Warren Riley, the assistant superintendent and chief of operations, noticed it too. He last saw Accardo at City Hall at 12:30 a.m. Saturday. There had been another shooting, Riley said, and he told Accardo about it. But Accardo hardly responded, Riley said, and shortly thereafter he took a car and drove west. Captain Michael Pfeiffer said the department wanted to give Accardo a chance to get out of town and decompress. But he did not get far.
'World can't understand' By Keith O'Brien, Globe Correspondent | September 5, 2005
How do the illegal immigrants get away with fake social security cards?
I am googling all over the place, and no mention of Tony's big teaser. Can't find it on a blog, either.
Which points to the need to have the City Auditor in on it, or at least too cowed to take official notice
And the white supremicists, you recall, with the neo-nazi snipers that were in the white van. Oh, and did Moose actually find the real killers? Naaaaah!
So was Eddie lying or were those "88 officers" the phantom payroll cops?
The MSM sucks in not even checking the situation. They make brave in standing outside in 100 MPH winds, but they won't walk into the Superdome?
Too much BS for me!
I'll alert Drudge about your witness report of a violent rape.
Sorry that couple weren't Christian enough to step in to stop it.
The rest of their report is hearsay ..."They heard" about the other stuff.
As I said, Drudge's story did indicate that there may have been some rapes, but none have been substantiated. He stated that many of the other wild tales have come up dry when they tried to substantiate them, too.
I was listening in on the the Tony Snow show this morning. It was discussed twice while I while I was tunining in. Tony referred to it as breaking news and promised more on the subject.
Drudge has pulled his media hype and hysteria at the Superdome story and has one about the supreme court nomination coming up instead.
New Orleans is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to non-existant teachers. It's highly possible the cops are the same.
That has always bothered me, that Nagin went to Dallas, bought a house, enrolled his child in school there, all while folks were trying to get out of NO to safety.
What did/does Nagin know that we don't.
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