Posted on 09/27/2005 12:17:49 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
Live conference...
"They did it!"
I was thinking similar. If Katrina had hit on a Prez. election year on Nov. 1, I do not doubt that the number of votes cast would still be average what it has been in the past in New Orleans. Ghost cops, ghost voters...
You are correct. Look, if you carry the title of "elected public official" in Lousiana, there is just no way in hell that you don't know which side of the bread has the butter on it.
Start from dog catcher in BooHoo Parish (if elected) and go right to the top. EVERY public official in Lousiana is on the take, involved with those that do the "giving", or has made a deal with everyone in between. The term "mobbed up" does not just refer to the traditional mob, but to the homegrown, historical Lousiana battalion of corrupt public officials.
It's a freakin' tradition and it has a very long (Long-as in Huey, Earl, etc.) history.
If you think that Blanco and Nagin are/were not aware of the political climate in LA, you are living in a dream world. If you think that ol' Ray got elected on his charm and his good offices, you are living in a super dream world.
If you think that anyone with the last name of Landrieu is not on the take, knows who is on the take, arranged the take, controls the take, profits from the take, and gets elected because of the take, you are living in a dream world.
There are no good guys in this deal. Not a cop, not an elected official, not a job that relies on an elected official. They are all dirty. Right now they are running scared. The city aldermen, the school board, the Levee boards, the public works officers, the legal establishment. THEY ALL KNOW. Will they pay? Not unless the feds really go after them.
They are looking right now for ways to weasel out.
This stuff is common knowledge, and has been since my family lived in South Lousiana before the War of Northern Agression.
It's always been that way, only the names have changed.
Okay Tony, Everyone is on Red-Alert here...we'll be anxiously waiting til tomorrow to tune in for some in depth info!!!!
As someone posted earlier....This is Hugh and Serious!!!
Frankly it sounds like these vendors are having cash problems. All of those excuses are basic Accounts Payable 101 excuses for why the bill has not yet been paid.
It's harder to steal from Accounts Payable then it is from payroll. First of all, there has to be someone ELSE involved in the scam.
The Accounts Payable department at the little hospital I worked for did manage to embezzle over 100K from the hospital. They did it through the hospital's system of what they called "patient refunds". Which is when the hospital cut a check for a "patient" that paid their bill in advance and the insurance paid the same bill later.
Some of the AP people got some friends' names and began issuing patient refunds to these friends. This also required cooperation from the patient accounting department as they had to approve patient refunds.
The AP friends cashed the checks in their own name then likely split the checks with the AP theives.
A department manager could easily put a ghost on the payroll. They could turn in all paperwork for an employee to the HR department. Somehow it could slip by. Just locate the people who don't do their jobs and make them your contact.
"Sally, I interviewed this nurse yesterday. She can't come in because she's on 24 hour shift at another hospital but I have all of her paperwork, including copies of her ID's. You know Doctor Bones needs an operating room nurse immediately so can you push through the paperwork so she gets paid?"
This is how most fraud gets committed. By thieves smart enough to find the holes in the system and by locating employees who are stupid.
Of course the employees' paperwork would request a direct deposit of the paycheck, said checking account provided owned by that very same manager.
Turn in timesheets every week and boom, a net paycheck gets deposited right into my account, very convenient.
The less people involved in a scam the easier to get away with it.
Of course there's a million ways my above scenario would not last forever. But hey, they rarely do. Extortions and scame are usually caught. It depends on the quality of the employees involved all around on how long it takes to catch them. The intent of these scams is not that they go on forever. Get the money and run is the logic.
If someone, somehow, doesn't notice timesheets submitted for employees never seen, or the Feds don't finally get around to notifying payroll that the SS# for this person is not valid, or some other employee stumbles upon the truth, well who knows, an entire city could get flooded with only ghost cops on patrol who then all conveniently abandoned their posts!
Yup, I think those ghost cops were assigned to cover during the Katrina aftermath because, a)no one expected the flooding and b)THINK OF THE OVERTIME!
It's how it works, ladies and gems. IT's how thieves think.
LOL! Most FReepers now have NO idea of which you speak....I'll send some cigars if you explain the story, FRiend.
This goes way, way back, back to the days of the early FReeper pioneers, dogged souls who boldly clicked on a link at the Drudge Report called "Whitewater Files", not realizing that at that very moment our lives were about to be changed forever by a thing (the word blog didn't yet exist) called "Free Republic". Anyway, back in those rough and crazy early days there was this cryptic poster who tantilized us all with mysterious tidbits, implying that he had juicy inside info on the Clinton scandals. His name was "DeepInTheHurtgenForest" (not sure if I have spelled that exactly right). But after leading us on for months and months, he was finally exposed as a huge (this was well before the spelling had changed to hugh) liar and fraud. It made us all feel like we needed a shower, but this was before FReepers knew to take showers at the slightest provocation. So we just fumed about being scammed, made sure we were logged on, and kept FReeping, albeit a bit wiser and more skeptical.
a little laughter...
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WWL reported Compass will be around for another 30-45 days.
What did/does Nagin know that we don't.
That his crack dealer evacuated to Dallas?
"It is Hugh and Series, too!
Sorry couldn't resist, LOL!"
It's also Bush's fault.....;o)
Per My tagline...
For one... http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492293/posts?page=540#540
In short, a lot of people took advantage of the fact that the school system was using an Oracle system that almost no one knew how to maintain. A lot of bogus entries were added and few were ever removed. As a result teachers would retire and still get their pension check and a regular check. While some would get 2 checks! Even some substitutes were receiving checks as if they were regular. The database went to hell and people exploited it.
That wasn't the same day the clintoons were in town, was it?
Yes, yes, yes. We are about to see the tide turning in the inner cities.
I think the feds will definitely want to examine the resignation rate of police officers in large cities for the next several months. After this scam, people are going to start covering their tracks.
Perfect. FReep mail me for where you want your cigars sent... Regards
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New Orleans is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to non-existant teachers.
What's the story with this?
It is business as usual whether you are in Chicago or down in New Orleans...
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