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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:
06/01/07 17:00
To:
Case File
Statement:
Subject:
Robert Greene Interview on 06/01/07
THE FOLLOWING IS A REPORT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT GREENE AT HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE IN
TACOMA ON 06/01/07 AT AROUND 1700 HOURS.
SDPA Hobbs and I went to Robert Greene's mother's residence in Tacoma for the arranged meeting with
Greene. Greene invited us into the backyard for the interview.
I began by telling Greene that he was not under arrest, and he said he understood this.
Greene told us the following in response to questions:
He said he worked for ACORN. He said the whole crew went to the library in Seattle. He described the new
library in downtown. He said they sat in the library and wrote names. He said they didn't get any signatures from
real people, that they did it themselves.
Greene said that when he went to get his last check Brianna told him she didn't have it. Greene said that Cliff, the
field manager, told him he'd been to Brianna's house and seen Greene's check, and he said he'd get it for him.
He said that Cliff went to get his check but it wasn't there. Brianna later told Greene that she lost his check.
Greene said he went to ACORN and they gave him his check.
Greene said the crew that went to Seattle besides himself were Cliff, two white guys, a white girl and a mixed-race
girl. He said that Brianna drove them up and picked them up on at least one occasion.
Greene said it was Cliff's idea to make the fraud cards. Greene said it was easy to sign people up in Tacoma
because he'd lived there all his life and new people. He said he went to the hilltop area.
Greene said he went to Seattle only a couple of times.
Greene said he initialed his cards "R." SDPA Hobbs showed him a form with an "R" and Greene confirmed it was
his initial.
Greene said that all the cards in Seattle were fraudulent. He did say that he walked up to a church on Madison
where they were handing out food and while there he got one or two homeless people to sign cards for him, be he
said they were probably fraudulent also.
Greene said when the crew sat in the library they made up names for the cards, or they used phone books and
newspapers. He said they then signed the cards themselves. He said the whole crew helped him, and he said he
didn't like sitting in the library. He said it was hard work making up all of those cards.
Greene said that Cliff and Brianna told the crew that they needed to get more cards and that they put pressure on
them.
I showed Greene pictures of Tina Johnson, Kendra Thill, Ryan Olson, Clifton Mitchell and Brianna Debwa. He
positively identified all of them as the people he worked with at ACORN and the people he made up the cards with,
Reporting Officers Name:
Johnson, Christopher T.
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