Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

SHERIFF
Officer ID:
05070
Address:
KING COUNTY
Name (Last, First, Middle):
Johnson, Christopher T.
King County Sheriff's Office
CaseNbr:
07-120588
DateReportTaken: Time:
05/10107 13:10
To:
Case File
Statement:
Subject:
Brianna Oebwa Interview on 05/10107
not the employee. She said the only reason she could think of for the employee to fill out an application was if the
person was quadriplegic, and she said she told the employees this. She said in the event this happened, the
employees were instructed to call her.
Oebwa said it got so she could recognize employee handwriting. She said she fired at least a few employees
because she realized they were completing voter registration applications, meaning they created a fraudulent card.
SOPA Hobbs showed Oebwa a copy of a "training certificate," which is signed by employees and shows that they
acknowledged receiving training. Oebwa confirmed that this was the case.
Oebwa said that duplicate "cards" (Oebwa refers to voter registration applications as "cards") were a problem and
that they appeared often. She explained that duplicate cards were cards which had the same name but a different
address.
Oebwa said that she entered everything into a database on a computer. She said the computer was supplied by
ACORN. She said the computer was sent to ACORN, she thinks to Rhode Island, when the Tacoma office was
closed down.
Oebwa said that after Latch left she trained some employees, but Clifton Mitchell often did the training. She said
that Mitchell took over many other functions after Latch left, including the following: recruiting, finding potential
registration sites and monitoring employees in the field.
SOPA Hobbs asked Oebwa if she knew who Alex King was. She thought for a moment and then said she had to
write him up for suspicious cards. When questioned further, she was not sure if it was King was the person of
whom she was thinking.
Oebwa said that her ACORN headquarters contact was Stephanie Moore. She said that Moore was the head
political organizer (PO) for the Tacoma office, and offices in other regions. She said she became the PO for the
Tacoma office after Latch left.
Oebwa said that all QC persons, nation-wide, had a weekly conference call to discuss issues that were arising.
Some examples Oebwa gave were how to deal suspicious cards and how to deal with duplicate cards.
Oebwa said that the Tacoma office was closed and everything shipped out by October 23,2006.
Next, Oebwa discussed day-to-day operations. She said that she and Latch were the first persons to arrive each
day, between 8:30 and 9:00 AM. Workers would show up around noon and work until around 6:00 PM.
Workers could go anywhere they wanted, unless there was a prior planned site to go to. At the end of the day the
workers would say where they went. Oebwa then corrected and said in the morning before the workers left they
would designate a general area.
Workers signed in daily. Oebwa was responsible for time sheets.
Reporting Officers Name:
Johnson, Christopher T.
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