Posted on 11/06/2009 11:36:19 AM PST by milwguy
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has served a search warrant at the ACORN office at 2609 Canal Street, according to Tammi Arender Herring, a spokeswoman with the office.
Investigators in khaki pants and polo shirts loaded several dozen computers and other electronic items into an SUV. They are also carrying records out of the building on handcarts.
The large office building sits at the corner of Dorgenois and Canal. ACORN staffers were given no notice that a search would be conducted today, Herring said.
"They have been extremely cooperative," she said.
Early last month, Caldwell's office issued subpoenas for records from ACORN's New Orleans office, where the organization -- now moving its national headquarters to Washington -- has long been based.
Today's search is an outgrowth of those subpoenas, which stemmed from an investigation by Caldwell's office into the embezellement of ACORN funds by Dale Rathke, a brother of the organization's founder, Wade Rathke, Herring said.
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I hope those computers have some good info on them. Knowing the competence of ACORN, they probably thought hitting the delete button would wipe out the evidence of the corruption. Luckily it ain't that easy.
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huh?
Good to know they're snappily dressed.
What great news! That makes my day. Make that YEAR!!!!!!!
So, the “state inspectors” are “in charge”.
I don’t think so....just a smoke screen...
Who will take on Obama on anything? Exactly.
Watch for more bodys to be found...
Ft Marcy Park seems like a good spot.
I am surprised it was State investigators and not the Feds themselves.
In which city might this Canal Street be located?
But in the subpoenas, the state attorney general’s office suggested that the embezzlement may have been on the order of $5 million, and that ACORN’s current CEO, Bertha Lewis, acknowledged as much at an Oct. 17, 2008 board meeting, soon after she assumed the position.
If this goes to court and Bertha Lewis has to testify, I may take a little vacation time to go to NO and watch the trial. After watching her on TV, it would be worth every dime to watch her try to answer the prosecutors questions.
Wow. Until I saw the words, “Times-Picayune”, I had a brief flicker of hope that the raid was on Canal St., CHICAGO... Oh, well, maybe they’ll score in Nawlins.
“ACORN staffers were given no notice that a search would be conducted today, Herring said.”
Isn’t that kind of the point?
You must be reading something wrong. “No notice” is the norm.
“ACORN staffers were given no notice that a search would be conducted today, Herring said. “
BS. They were probably told well in advance to clean out their computers and delete files.
New Orleans
"They have been extremely cooperative," she said.
Translation: all PC's with any incriminating evidence were long ago removed by ACORN, OR...they believe they have scrubbed the evidence...
Just wait till an FBI PC tech looks...they can find anything that EVER existed on a HD, short of it have been physically replaced...
“ACORN staffers were given no notice that a search would be conducted today, Herring said. “
BS. They were probably told well in advance to clean out their computers and delete files.
lol!
Probably won't find much.
That makes two great parades in NYC today!
Racism? Boosh’s fault?
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