** Louisiana PING **
Posted on 12/03/2005 8:40:39 AM PST by caryatid
**EXCLUSIVE**
New details are surfacing concerning New Orleans' former Superintendent of Police, Eddie "the hat" Compass, sources tell The Dead Pelican.
Compass' abrupt resignation from NOPD was, according to sources, brought about by a number of factors that were rapidly approaching critical mass. In other words, the situation had reached a level at which things can no longer be concealed, hushed up or downplayed without calling in too many favors or costing too much money. In other words, Ray Nagin wasn't about to risk his political career to cover up for Compass any more than he already had without implicating himself in the upcoming scandals, so he orchestrated Compass' move to the private sector, sources tell The Dead Pelican.
There are also interesting questions about how and why Compass got his new "security" gig with the hotels.
Sources also say that both Compass and his wife were in possession of, and using daily, cars that had been "appropriated" from Sewell Cadillac right after the hurricane! This was widely known at "street level" and also known to AG Foti's investigation of the post-Katrina looting of Sewell Cadillac by NOPD, sources tell Rogers. Well placed insiders tell The Dead Pelican that it is all being “hushed up” for political reasons. “Compass isn't the only big shot who got a "free ride," sources tell The Dead Pelican.
Insiders predict that this will all come out when the results of the investigation are made public.
Developing...
Sources also say that both Compass and his wife were in possession of, and using daily, cars that had been "appropriated" from Sewell Cadillac right after the hurricane! This was widely known at "street level" and also known to AG Foti's investigation of the post-Katrina looting of Sewell Cadillac by NOPD ....
The joys of Reconstruction II.
** Louisiana PING **
I predicted this over a month ago...
Hope these pukes start to go down.
Time to send a few emails to that hotel group that hired Compass.
Bump for a later reference.
Who got the paychecks written to the " Phantom" officers who never existed?
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knew Compass was running from something when he left.
Will his race protect him?? Well that remains to be seen.
I would say it probably will. Its a powerful card in Lousianna and New Orleans especially.
Louisiana seems to be in a no-win here - the corrupt officials/LE and the local people. Put a devastating hurricane on top of that..........
Send Kerry, Kennedy, Murtha, Clinton and the rest to Louisiana so they may see for themselves what a real quaqmire is.
Well let's see, we have ghost cops, coward cops, cops stealing Cadillacs, looter cops, cops holed up in hotels stealing generators from hospitals to keep their beer cold, cops stopping people from leaving New Orleans as it flooded, cops refusing to rescue women stranded on roofs unless they bared their breasts, yep, I'd say it was time to fire the chief.
Soooo...Nagin's story is that he knew about none of this until the busy days right after Katrina, when he fired Compass?
That he sent the cops to Las Vegas with $200 per day gambling money before he found out the cops were crooked?
Yah, that's gonna fly.
Yo, GeeDub?
It's time.
Get the Feds in there.
Give them the good kevlar flack jackets, this is mob territory after all.
Clean house and take no prisoners.
If you need an excuse, have the Senate Investiugative Committee issue an interim report. Pick a subject.
If you don't act on this and keep them off balance, they will turn it all onto you. They're already trying with the levees. Chop chop, burning daylight here.
I'm with you on this. Otherwise, I'll stay posted and wait for the spin on how this was all Bush's fault... Nagin and Blanko should be in JAIL right now along with a lot of other corrupt people.
jeffers, have we ever determined just exactly which cops had the $200/day gambling per diem ... were they real cops ... or were they phantom cops? And, what exactly were they doing in Las Vegas?
This whole screwy deal was so suspect that bells went off ... yet, I have not figured out what sort of nefarious things these folks may have been up to ... Why Las Vegas? Why such a precipitate trip? What was really going on?
I wish they could put this in one more set of "other words." ;)
I am still wondering about the phantom cops on the NO payroll.
That story kind of hit a brick wall. The other day I saw it mentioned again on NRO. They were asking for any details. Leads me to believe that it is true and hopefully will be made public.
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