Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

Case #07-120588
May 24,2007 [cv]
WitTss Statement
Det. I
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
ACORN employee ... total registration um ... the cards that they checked out ... the number
of cards they brought back ... the number that were um ... fully and completely filled
out. .. the number that were suspicious um .. .in our ... by our criteria.
Right.
And urn .. .I mean it was very detailed.
Steve Hobbs: Okay. All right. Ijust ... maybe to complete this ...
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
And I think that maybe I was fired more because I didn't'terminate people as quickly as I
perhaps should have. So people who weren't producing urn ... enough I kept on payroll
for too long.
What was the ... what was the criteria ... what was ACORN's criteria for. enough
registration per day?
They wanted twenty a day. We never got it from anybody until after I left ... uh ... to my
recollection.
Steve Hobbs: Do you know if they were getting twenty per day in other parts of the country or is it. ..
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
I understood that they were.
Urn ... were there communications, emails, phone calls about that issue? These people
aren't generating enough?
Sure.
Steve Hobbs: So there was ... there was an ongoing ...
Witness:
You're not making your numbers ... yeah ... absolutely.
Steve Hobbs: Okay. All right. And did you (unintelligible) ...
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
I was never so glad to get fired from ajob in all my life.
Were you, were you uh .. .ifyou didn't make the numbers did you not get money to run
the show or ...
They ... they said that they would be more forthcoming with the kinds of things we needed
to equip the office and um ... chum ... as we call it um ... ya know ... the kinds of stuff that
you give employees to make them feel included like hats and aprons and vests and
buttons and ...
Okay. That's fair enough.
Witness: ... and trainings and trips and ya know ...
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