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SHERIFF
Officer ID:
05070
Address:
KIKGCOUNTY
Name (Last, First, Middle):
Johnson, Christopher T.
King County Sheriff's Office
CaseNbr:
07-120588
DateReportTaken: Time:
05/10107 13:10
To:
Subject:
Case File Brianna Debwa Interview on 05/10107
Statement:
THE FOLLOWING IS A REPORT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH BRIANNA DEBWA AT THE US ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE IN TACOMA ON 05/10107 AT AROUND 1310 HOURS.
SDPA Hobbs and I met with Brianna Debwa at the US Attorney's office in Tacoma.
Debwa told us the following in response to our questions (as a note, Debwa's answers and explanations jumped
around and often changed throughout the interview):
She was hired by Anita Latch to work at ACORN. She and Latch are friends. The first day Debwa went through
training and also went into "the field" to register voters. After the first day Debwa was given the position as the
Quality Control person (QC).
The Tacoma ACORN office was first in the local library branch.
Debwa was trained by Nianna Miller, who is from Florida. Debwa believes Miller works for Project Vote.
Latch was in charge of the Tacoma ACORN office, but she was soon fired. Debwa claimed she did not know why
Latch was fired.
Debwa said that she was hired in the beginning of the ACORN Tacoma office, and she stayed until the office
closed. Debwa said that it was her fault that the voter applications were turned into King County Elections late.
Debwa then explained what she did as QG. She said she receives the voter registration applications at the end of
the day and then makes calls on 10-20% to verify that the phone number are good and that the person's whose
name was on the application really registered to vote.
She said she called the ones that she knew were good, but not the ones that duplicates or that looked suspicious.
She claimed she could tell by looking at a card if it was bad. She said she was trained by the W A State Liquor
Board to recognize legitimate DL numbers. She said she received this training because she was a bartender at
times.
SDPA Hobbs showed Debwa her employment application and other employment-related documents. Debwa
confirmed that they were the forms she completed. She told us that every employee had to fill out these forms.
She confirmed that no backgrounds were done on employees.
Debwa said that she sometimes went into the field to check on the workers. She said that Latch was supposed to
be doing this, but she never did. Debwa said she ended up telling Latch what she should be doing. She said she
practically ran everything.
Debwa again went over some of the QG training she received. She said she received a training pamphlet that
instructed her what to do. She said she was instructed to call people and verify the information on the voter
registration application. She said a family member could verify for the person who completed the application.
Debwa said she told all employees that the only person that should be completing an application is the applicant,
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