Tip of the Iceberg.
You can't do that with Just One Guy. It takes someone in payroll or HR, and probably Nagin to be in cahoots with Compass. No way one guy could invent 700 cops, complete with resumes, ssn, addresses, and phones that somehow only take messages, bank accounts to deposit the checks, etc, etc,
That many officers have to have cars, uniforms, guns. Where did that stuff go?
Howcome Nagin didn't have bus drivers (which was his excuse for not using the buses)? Was that payroll padded too?
This is going to be big. Really big. I bet this reaches all the way up to Blanco.
And to Rep William Jefferson? And to the other William Jefferson . . .?
Agreed.
Which Blanco? See my post #76 in this thread.
Can we safely assume there are "phantom employees" in every city department? Every state department?
Good point!
Nagin has already shown he will play the Race card so fast it will make your head spin.
The FBI is going to busy for a long, long time there... One thing leads to another... This is going to lead all over...
We are watching the total deconstruction of a major Democrat operated criminal organization know as New Orleans. I'm surprised there weren't numerous structure fires where the city's records were kept... Of course that's probably optimistic... They probably don't keep records... I doubt the city will ever be the same again after its had some sun light shown in its dark places...
When an officer leaves, you don't terminate him, You just change the address and stop direct deposit.
Don't forget Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu .. who has been quite as a mouse lately
Senator Mary Landrieu's little brother and the son of former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu
Right. And that was just the police force! No wonder NO was so free of crime! (s/)
Now think, folks, just because the city payroll was padded doesn't mean they were all that smart and creative in trying to conceal it. Remeber, this is LA, after all. Who is going to check? There is no need to carry the deception any further than the city treasury. So no equipment, no actual names, no nothing. Just the big payroll and some way to transfer the money into other accounts.
If true, which will be verified soon enough, of course it is the itp of the iceberg. Had to have been going on for years, perhaps generations. All or part of those bogus FTE's were already there before Compass took the job.
Wow. Those are some really good questions.
And I'll bet you're absolutely right. The Dims are pretty transparent. After the hurricane who were the three screaming the loudest ("accuse the other side of doing exactly what you're doing", in this case accusing Bush and FEMA of being slow and inept, when it's actually you who are slow, inept, and, oops, CORRUPT to the core)? Oh, wait, let's make that four, if you count Senator Landrieu. She was screaming loudly too. So, we have the Mayor, the Police Chief, the Guvnah, and the Senatah screaming loudly. Hmmmmmm. And, notice how subdued they have been the last few days? Just hmmmmmmmm.
A couple weeks ago I thought if one dug around in the Guvnah's back yard one might find some really nasty skeletons. Now I can think of her, plus three more. Start digging.
I now understand why Compass asked the reporters not to question his motives as to why he retired...
Aren't they civil servants?
Don't they have to take a civil service exam?
Aren't they union members?
This does, indeed, spread around.
Hmmmmm. I'm wondering if a certain GOP wunderkind isn't also participating, since he was the comptroller during the last administration? Wouldn't the state government also know about the ghost police?
I recall reading somewhere that out of the ~300 flooded school busses, 60 of them were broken down and inoperable. I wonder if they were paying drivers for them?
Or beyond. She may have been completely out of the loop. If this story pans, there were clearly no checks and balances for government in this region. I'd say watch this investigation close, and then investigate the investigators, look for relationships and connections. Once it's determined if this is true, follow the money, and keep following the money.
Lol! Maybe a little farther than that. Never forget that sweet Mary Landrieu's Daddy, Maurice "Moon" Landrieu, started as a NO city councilman and served as the city's mayor. I'm laying money that Mary knows about anything that happens in NO. Graft and corruption are not only a tradition in LA, they appear to be almost hereditary.