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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Just copied the “no notice” sentence from the article.
You wonder why the other 56 state Attorney Generals let ACORN run a criminal enterprise in their State?
Under Holder, the Feds won’t investigate ANYTHING that could be tied to Obambi.
If they are as competent at ‘deleting’ files and emails as they are when advising ‘pimps and hookers’, a forensic investigator will retrieve those in no time at all. Unless you are very familiar with computers, actually ‘destroying’ files and emails is not very easy.
so who’s left holding the bag? some welfare mothers getting minimum wage to “work” in that dump? It’s a former funeral home isn’t it?
Casual Friday at the Effa Bee Eye ;-)
heads up
Or these files are one their way straight to the incinerator...
NOLA
This is probably too little too late. I don’t understand why this wasn’t done in 2008 or even earlier.
You’re right. PC hard drives have to be nuked pretty much to dispose of any incriminating evidence.
Nonsense! It's trivial ... all you need is a sledgehammer.
;'}
Oh ... wait. You wanted to still use the disk?
Never Mind ...
As I understand, this is not under Holder. It’s under the LA AG’s Department.
Bobby Jindal(R) is the Gov. of Louisiana.
From watching the ‘pimp and hooker’ videos, it is obvious these ACORN folks aren’t rocket scientists. They probably thought hitting the ‘delete’ button was enough to destroy the evidence
Big ACORN Ping!!
This was state, not federal. And that's a good thing.
Much better the state investigates and not Eric Holder
Omoslem wants to grab those computers + bury the evidence.
We’ll never know what was on them.
Photo ops...
NOTICE HOW THEY WAITED UNTIL AFTER THE NOVEMBER 3 ELECTION....
So ACORN could try rigging that election....
Before bothering to bust them.
Thank you, government!
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