Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

Case #07-120588
May 24,2007 rev]
Witness Statement
Det.1 I
was told pretty unequivocally by my peers in other places that I real ... and by my
supervisor that I really needed to rein her in and um ... confine her work to those tasks that
she was supposed to accomplish and not to my work um ... but certainly she believed that
she was ready ... r. . .I don't think that she was when I left.
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And if ... and if ... the shortcoming was ... can you repeat it?
I think she was a little to eager um ... the power was attractive um .. .I think she was a little
more overwhelmed than she let on by the ... hours ... the campaign hours.
Is there any reason uh ... registrations should have been submitted without initials ... on
them?
Occasionally. Like I said somebody would throw them in the trash and we'd be fortunate
enough that another staffer would see it and bring them in. Um ... other occasions where a
person uh ... went out and got cards and came back and left them on the counter and
walked out without speaking to us because they didn't want the job ... um those happened
occasionally.
Um ... King County uh ... from dates as far as I can tell after you left we have over nine
hundred registrations that have been submitted without sig ... without initials in the
uh ... top comer. What would you say to that?
That sounds highly irregular to me. Um ... certainly not in conformity with ACORN
procedures and expectations and I'm surprised.
If you think that .. .if an individual uh ... was out gathering signatures that decided to sit
down with a phone book ... pick names at random and fill out twenty or thirty cards .. .is
that something you would expect uh ... that would be caught during the quality control
procedure ... (unintelligible).
Yes I would suspect that it would be. Um ... even though there would be phone
numbers ... those people would be called ... or a percentage of those people and once you
get a bad card ... once you have not been able to verify a card you are supposed to start
calling everybody in the batch. So ...
So if you could .. .ifyou hit one card that you can't verify ... so you, you, you get through
to somebody that says that's not my signature or whatever .. .
Oh absolutely. Call every single one of them in the batch.
All right. Um ... when you terminated somebody for fraudulent cards ... did you make any
effort to connect the reason for the termination with specific cards?
Witness: Yes. Certainly because each person's batch was um ... tracked ...
Stev~ Hobbs:
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Right.
... throughout the entire process and so all of that person's cards would be suspicious.
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