by WWLTV.com
Posted on January 26, 2010 at 2:04 PM
Updated today at 2:42 PM
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NEW ORLEANS – Four men posing as telephone repairmen trying to get inside Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office on Poydras Street and access the telephone network were arrested and with charged in a criminal complaint with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony, said U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
Joseph Basel, 24, Robert Flanagan, 24, James O’Keefe, 25, and Stan Dai, 24 were arrested Monday by police after trying to gain access to Landrieu’s office.
“According to the complaint, Flanagan and Basel were each dressed in blue denim pants, a blue work shirt, a light green fluorescent vest, a tool belt and a construction-style hard hat when they entered the Hale Boggs Federal Building,” said a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Once inside Senator Landrieu’s reception area, Flanagan and Basel told a member of Senator Landrieu’s staff that they were telephone repairmen, and they requested access to the main telephone at the reception desk,” said the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “Flanagan and Basel then manipulated the telephone system.”
According to the unsealed affidavit, the men told officials from Landrieu’s office that the phones were not working properly and that they needed to access the telephone closet to repair the system.
When Flanagan and Basel were questioned by authorities, they said they left their credentials in their car. They were apprehended by U.S. Marshal’s a short time later, said U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to the affidavit, the men admitted they weren’t telephone repairmen and posed as such to get inside Landrieu’s office.
The four men, if convicted, face a maximum term of ten years in prison, a fine of $250,000 and three years of supervised release following any term of imprisonment.
Any info on U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan?
I can’t find any info right off the top.
Joseph Basel, Robert Flanagan, James O’Keefe, and Stan Dai should cinsider themselves lucky that they will be going to Federal Prison and not “The Farm” in Angola.
so reading this then how does he do a crime then.
if these men tried to get in with out o keefe and then held at the main entrance then how are they tied to him when he is in the office and another part of the building ?
why does it take 4 people to tap a phone?
this all sounds like a big set up