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SHERIFF
Officer ID:
05070
Address:
KING COUNTY
Name (Last, First, Middle):
Johnson, Christopher T.
King County Sheriff's Office
CaseNbr:
07~120588
DateReportTaken:
05/10107 13:10
To:
Case File
Statement:
Subject:
Brianna Debwa Interview on 05/10107
Debwa said she had arguments with Pierce County people because they didn't want to accept the duplicate
cards. She said ACORN policy instructed that cards could not be thrown away, so she left the cards with Pierce
County despite their arguments.
Debwa went over the people who were working in September. She said Mitchell was hired the first part of August
and was there until the end. She said she didn't know him before this job. She said Robert Green "robbed" her
office, taking $150 work of bus fair tickets. She filed a report with Tacoma PD and Green was fired. Kendra Thill
was hired around September. She didn't previously know Thill. Ryan Olson started around the same time as
Mitchell and worked until the end. She also said that Olson lived with her for a short time and she still has some of
his belongings. She believes he is living with his mom in Seattle. Jayson Woods was hired towards the end, and
she was brought in by Tina Johnson after Debwa hired Johnson. Debwa said that Johnson was part of a gang
called "hatchet clowns," and it was thought that her and other workers who were part of the gang sold drugs while
they were working for ACORN. Debwa did not expand on who the other workers were, or if Johnson did this and if
so why she was not fired.
Debwa was asked if she fired any of these people. She said she didn't fire anyone at the end. Instead, they just
got laid off because the office was closed down. Later, it was pointed out that she completed termination letters
on all of these subjects. The letters were all dated near the last day the office was opened. Debwa implied that
she did this in the end to cover herself.
Debwa was asked what led her to believe there was a problem. She went back and forth on this. She finally said
that towards the end she was suddenly getting 1000+ cards per day. (This was after ACORN threatened to close
down the office for poor performance. Debwa said she communicated this to the workers). Because of the high
volume of cards she got behind on the verification process. She said she noticed that the cards turned in by Tina
Johnson, Jayson Woods and Ryan Olson appeared as if they were fraudulent. She also noted that all of these
cards were coming from Seattle.
Debwa continued to avoid direct questions about when she recognized that there was a problem, what specifically
the problem was and who all were responsible. Also, she avoided again the subject of who was terminated and
when.
SDPA Hobbs then asked Debwa to identify initials on copies of cards. She said "CM" were Clifton Mitchell's
initials; "T J" were Tina Johnson's initials; "RG" were Robert Green's initials; "JW" were Jayson Wood's initials;
and, "KL T" belonged to Kendra Thill.
Debwa was asked if there were no initials on a card what was done. She said the card was pulled out. She was
told that there were a large number of cards submitted to King County with no initials. She then said she
remembered at the end she noticed a large number without initials.
Debwa then volunteered that Mitchell would collect cards from workers and bring them in at the end of the day.
She said she thought people were sharing cards. When asked to explain she said that she thought they were
dividing up cards and then putting their initials on them. Debwa would not elaborate, so she was asked if she
Reporting Officers Name:
Johnson, Christopher T.
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