[caryatid]

Well, well!

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 ....

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The joys of Reconstruction II.

[caryatid]

** Louisiana PING **

[johnny7]

I predicted this over a month ago...

[ncountylee]

Hope these pukes start to go down.

[Lazamataz]

Put everyone who lived there back into Noo Oleans, surround it with a barbed-wire fence, and rename it the New Orleans Federal Penitentiary.

[ncountylee]

Time to send a few emails to that hotel group that hired Compass.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bump for a later reference.

[hummingbird]

Wasn't it Compass who went nuts during the "interview" with Geraldo? Geraldo was ginning up the situation & he and Compass had kind of a rap thing going about how bad it was. Then Compass suddenly went totally batsh*t and that was the last time I saw him on TV...after that, deputy chiefs were covering the interviews.

Compass was so crazy even Geraldo was walking away from the scene and I think it was O'Reilly's show that FOX cut back to. I'd like to see that again...it is funny in retrospect but at the time, it was totally horrifying to watch the NOPD Chief melt down when so much was still unknown about how many deaths and how much damage had been done.

[sgtbono2002]

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.

[Eagle9]

State probes cars 'borrowed' by N.O. police during Katrina
October 8, 2005

[daybreakcoming]

In reference to the FEMA threats of violence - the Baton Rouge paper online this morn reads "In the Baton Rouge incident, someone pulled a knife outside of the office's gates and made threatening comments and gestures, McIntyre said. No arrest was made in that incident, McIntyre said. "He ran away as the security people approached him," McIntyre said."

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.

[jeffers]

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.

[TankerKC]

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.

I wish they could put this in one more set of "other words." ;)

[Republican Red]

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.

[deport]

I'm not a big fan of congressional oversight investigations but this is one that I think could be useful. The feds have enough dollars put into the New Orleans area via the Corps of Engineers, Schools, roadways, public safety, etc. that they can do an all encompassing look at the money, where it went and was graft/fraud prevelant.

[ladyjane]

I'm wondering who the insurance company is for Sewell Cadillac. You *know* they are not going to be paying out claims for those stolen Cadillacs without looking for lots and lots of answers.

To claim something is stolen you need to file a police report. Imagine the guy taking the police report!

[JOE6PAK]

The year's best Cadillac values. Sewell Cadillac of New Orleans

[Robert A Cook PE]

Any Compass ties to the reported 23% of the NOPD cops who were on the city's payroll, but weren't really in the city at all?

[Bratch]

It's Bush's fault.

[Libloather]

Former police superintendent Eddie Compass, right, congratulates Warren J. Riley after his swearing in as the new Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department during a ceremony in New Orleans, La., Monday Nov. 28, 2005. Compass resigned Sept. 27, 2005 four weeks after Hurricane Katrina.(AP Photo/Chuck Burton)