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

[bethtopaz]

i love that song!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Can you or anyone else here tell me what records are available online for looking up recent home purchases in Dallas? This is so ridiculous that no one seems to know *where* in the metroplex the Nagins have replanted themselves.

[Eagles Talon IV]

"Couple that with the msm reporting lies about hostile situations on the ground, that kept help out, and it certainly takes the bloom off LIBERAL politicians screaming it was Bush's fault."

We are beginning to see exactly WHY the media and the lib pols have been so hysterically pounding the Bush Administration. They are desperate to keep public attention away from this scandal.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Would certainly explain why she held the feds at bay for 24 hours. They needed time to try and destroy records. Course it's a little hard to destroy records when you have to get there by boat and there's no electricity to run the shredder.

:þ)

[thinking]

What a riot...ha ha...follow the money as Rush says....

[mabelkitty]

NO!
Send that to Tony Snow!
Good catch!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Big Time Ping. See, Tacoma could be worse.

[mabelkitty]

So, if Blanco said yes to Martial Law, she would have to hand oversite of LE to the Feds.
That being said, she'd have to tell them "I have 1,000 LE officers" or "I have 1,700 LE officers".
We all know she refused.
She knew that she would be indicted for either murder (overestimating the number of LE to assist) or theft in office (low-balling the number, but paying for more), so what she did was stall and delay so she can pretend she doesn't know.

[RDTF]

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=12097&siteSection=1

8th District Officer Hauls Financial Records To Grand Jury Inquiry


POSTED: 3:20 p.m. CDT April 23, 2004
UPDATED: 3:42 p.m. CDT April 23, 2004


Story by The New Orleans Channel

NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans police officer was called Friday to appear before a federal grand jury investigating alleged payoffs to police for protection of an alleged gambling and drug operation in the French Quarter.

Officer Charles "Chuck" Loescher, the 8th District's crime prevention officer, was ordered to produce financial records, according to police sources. Loescher carried a large box into the courthouse Friday.

Loescher is one of three 8th District officers who have been reassigned and are under investigation for criminal wrongdoing in connection with the operation at 335 Bourbon St.

The FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Terrence "Scotty" Border, 62, paid 8th District officers approximately $1,500 a week to protect the alleged gambling operation run by Border and owned by Mitch Schwartz, 92.

Border is a career criminal with a lengthy list of felony convictions and a rap sheet dating back 45 years, records show.

While allegedly paying off police for protection, Border was living in a house on Jupiter Street in Chalmette. According to property records, Loescher was Border's landlord.

[longshadow]

Personally, I wouldn't have thought this way. I'm truly floored by this. If this "FBI investigation/ discovery" turns out to be a truthful story, this could end up being one of the most important scandals of the last 100 years.

Oh, I agree it will be a HUGE scandal if it pans out. Put as soon as I saw Nagin and Blanco behaving weirdly even BEFORE Katrina hit, I suspected something foul was behind the weirdness. The sudden and excessive blame aimed by NO and LA pols at FEMA and th Federal Government in general in the immediate aftermath made me highly suspocious, and I almost immediately suspected that trying to keep political corruption from being discovered was the underlying motive -- basically the guilty were playing a game of legerdomain, of trying to distract the public and the media with a preemptive attack on the FEDS, such that whem the inevitable discovery of corruption came, they would have innoculated themselves the same way the Clintons did with their pre-emptive attacks on the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" -- the LA pols will now claim that this investigation/allegation of corruption are "pay-back" from angry feds who were embarrassed by their own poor performance in the wake of Katrina.

IOW, they will now try to pass this off as a politically motivated vendetta because they made Bush look bad after Katrina hit. But for that to work, they HAD to attack FEMA and Bush immediately after Katrina struck.

I'll go one step further and make a prediction: theose cops who were reported to have committed "suicide" in the Katrina aftermath "because they were overwhelmed" will turn out to have been murdered because they were whistleblowers who were going to turn in the corrupt cops and pols; Katrina provided the opportunity to have them killed when there were no inconvenient witnesses roaming the near empty city, and to make their deaths appear to be suicides.

[Black Tooth]

Let me guess, they all get to keep their killer government pensions right?

[RDTF]

http://junkyardblog.net/

LOUISIANA'S SWAMP OF CORRUPTION

[Black Tooth]

If this "FBI investigation/ discovery" turns out to be a truthful story, this could end up being one of the most important scandals of the last 100 years.

This is probably going on in a lot of places. If these guys in New Orleans can figure it out, well...Many others in government can too. It seems the hurricane just blew off their cover.

[ridesthemiles]

I'd like to see the mayor's and police chief's lifestyles and assets measured up against their salaries.""

Mayor Nagin has already purchased a house in Dallas and moved his family there.
I know I couldn't "purchase" another house if my current one, where I have all my equity, were gone or severely damaged. I doubt if many other USA residents could, either.

Louisiana has been a den of corruption for so long, it has it's own culture on the topic. IMO.
I hope investigations put some of these people into prison for a number of years.
I know I will NEVER donate anything again, unless it is up close and personal.

[mabelkitty]

How can I travel to Europe as a 'hood rep?
Who can I get to pay for it?
This is outrageous!

[Maigrey]

You should hear it performed live. It's 10x better. (I know. I saw them in July.)

Maybe now, they can post Landreau and Blanco behind them when they are performing.

[Publius6961]

Retirement?

I hope this comedian doesn't mean paid retirement!

What's up with that? Steal the public blind and then retire on the public's dime?

I don't think so!

OK, maybe on the public's dime, behind bars; after all assets are seized!

[RDTF]

http://michellemalkin.com
THE NEW ORLEANS POLICE MELTDOWN
By Michelle Malkin · September 28, 2005 10:23 AM

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

The water reached to the third step of Jefferson's house, a military source familiar with the incident told ABC News, and the vehicle pulled up onto Jefferson's front lawn so he wouldn't have to walk in the water. Jefferson went into the house alone, the source says, while the soldiers waited on the porch for about an hour......Finally, according to the source, Jefferson emerged with a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator, which the enlisted men loaded up into the truck......In an unrelated matter, authorities recently searched Jefferson's property as part of a federal investigation into the finances of a high-tech firm. Last month FBI officials raided Jefferson's house as well as his home in Washington, D.C., his car and his accountant's house......Last week, Jefferson set up a special trust fund for contributions to his legal defense in light of the FBI investigation. A senior federal law enforcement source tells ABC News that investigators are interested in learning if Jefferson moved any materials relevant to the investigation. Jefferson says he did not.