Bad Boys (FBI finds "deserting" police on New Orleans payroll don't exist)

Fox News ^ | September 27, 2005 | Tony Snow

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hours before New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass announced his resignation, Tony relayed some hot information he had heard from his Capitol Hill sources. It regarded an FBI investigation currently under way.

You can go to the source above and listen to that segment of his radio show.

Direct Audio Link

[Farmer Dean]

Nice catch on that!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You know, this makes all sorts of things come to mind.

Remember the two cops that committed suicide?

I think their deaths need to be looked at more closely.

[clifcrds]

Try this link for more on the Waters's gravey train:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/12/19/130142.shtml

[Peach]

This isn't a full story yet, but I told you that I would ping you when I saw something about this matter.

[tiredoflaundry]

*Phantom ping*

[tiredoflaundry]

I wonder how many of the ghost officers were included in Clinton's 100,000 federally funded police.

I would like to know that also!

[agere_contra]

Good catch Golightly. What relation is Elodia Blanco to Kathleen Babineux Blanco - does anybody know?

[McGavin999]

No, usually it's just called ghosting. They put in an employee with all the required "documentation" and they simply don't exist. There are all kinds of ways to cash the checks.

People try to pull that in construction all the time. The best way to keep it from happening is for someone from home office to appear on an irregular basis to hand out checks. The higher the position of that person the better.

[alnick]

Should be the story of the day but I'm not holding my breath.

If there's anything to it, it will probably take a week or more for it to filter down to MSM. We'll have to wait to see if Tony's sources turn out to be correct.

[Jim_Curtis]

Which authority is supposed to give the command to have Compass and Nagin arrested?

[mewzilla]

I don't know about what relation Elodia is to Blanco, but according to this link, she's got one to the NOPD.

New Orleans Police Foundation Elodia Blanco, Recruiting Coordinator 400 Poydras St. Suite 1940 New Orleans, La. 70130 1-888-****-*** (toll free) or ***-***-****

[Rebelbase]

Maybe the legacy of Huey Long will finally be cleansed from the state of La.

[mewzilla]

Click here for a pic of Elodia Blanco.

[angkor]

no supervision (or even with supervision, because I am thinking the whole area needs to be relieved of duties, at least, for a while)

Just to prove your point, the Orleans Parish School Board was effectively replaced by a private turnaround management company in July due to malfeasance and corruption.

And it was the School Board - not Ray Nagin - that was dithering about releasing its school buses for hurricane evacs, as is specifically discussed in its June 9 2005 minutes.

The whole city is a circus of incompetence.

[Miss Marple]

Fox and Friends interviewing a former NO city councilwoman. She says she went to a levee board meeting in 2000 and raised her hand and asked when they were going to talk about the levees. She was told it wasn't on the agenda.

Her name is Peggy Wilson, and she says that the money should be watched by someone who isn't a politician but understand how New Orleans has worked, and keeps them from doing business as usual.

Lots more about corruption that I didn't catch, including allocating roofing moneys for buildings that were scheduled to be demolished.

[kalee]

I am wondering about the two officers who committed suicide. Were they involved in this and fearful it would come out?

[abb]

In the Bogart movie, "Deadline USA" a police detective investigating a murder committed by thugs dressed as policemen, ask a news reporter, "Can't you tell the cops from the bad guys?" The reporter's reply, "In this town?"

[Alia]

Hmmm. Is this kinda like all those dead voters voting? ;>

[mewzilla]

Limbaugh mentioned on his radio show a while ago that each levee in NO is controlled by a separate board. If more levees were built, then the boards' power would be, pardon the pun, watered down. So, no new levees. Lovely city, eh?

[OldFriend]

Since this could not be blamed on Bush, it's clear why only FNC carried the resignation.

I took a quick look up the dial and no other TV station carried the presser.