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...
I am sending an email to each and every one of them, Thanks.
No Way! lol!
I agree and here's another oddity for you.
Why was Ray Nagin holed up at the Hyatt Hotel for 24 hours after Katrina passed without a phone line? Why was he there another 24 to 48 hours with only one phone line after they rigged up a switch they cobbed at Office Depot?
He claimed his Emergency Operations Center was underwater, making the Hyatt a better choice, but with no phones, and no e-mail, he was essentially out of play for the critical 72 hours after the storm.
He claimed he was trapped there by rising waters, but he was able to give interview after interview to the national media, so it wasn't comms issues that kept him there. He could have called for a boat or chopper, which I know that both the city and state had available, over public television if necessary, and gotten to a place he could have exercised some leadership and made things happen.
He had to know all this, so staying at the Hyatt was by choice.
Why?
There were cops at the Hyatt, tenth floor, holed up with looted generators and beer, the Hyatt guests snagged 13 buses that had been scheduled to pick up at one of the shelters or overpasses, and now Compass works security for a hotel collective.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three time is enemy action, but here we see a nexus of four independent lines of occurrence all connecting at hotels, specifically the Hyatt.
End of the world hurricane party stretching out three days?
Wife out of town, time to play?
Bad eggs that run the city from the shadows also holed up at the Hyatt, pulling Nagin's strings?
Allowing him to feel comfortable in the presence of his "bosses"?
There's a whole section of the puzzle we aren't seeing here, and I have a feeling that pulling on even one thread will unravel it all, since the edges are visible in so many different places.
I'd like a New Orleans insider, say someone at the Dead Pelican, to get their hands on a Hyatt guest register for that period, and I'd also like to know who all was on those 13 buses. Wait,,,I thought of this just as I was about to hit send. Nagin wanted to allow the larger hotels gambling licenses after the storm. That's six lines of convergence.
If we assume that Nagin could somehow have personally profited from hotel gambling, i terms of cold cash or political favors, it narrows the range of possibilities in how this all ties together.
There also is an ongoing investigation about the levees, etc.
I realize this is a pointless request, but it would be nice if for once you could bash someone other than the President.
Or was this a ploy to 'thin' the ranks by removing the 'ghost' cops from the city (so the absence of the nonexistent police was less noticeable) and take one last run at the treasury in paychecks and advances?
New Orleans phantom cops ping.
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