Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

1 Debwa discussed how she was hired and by whom. She detailed her role in the
Tacoma office. The interview was in-person. A detailed report of that
2 interview is included in the case file. After the interview Debwa became a
suspect.
3
I. Suspect Interviews
4
The following suspects were interviewed: Brianna Debwa, Tina Johnson, Robert
5 Greene, Clifton Mitchell, Ryan Olson and Jayson Woods.
6 Follow-up Debwa Interviews
May 10, 2007
7 SDPA Hobbs and I met with Brianna Debwa at the US Attorney's office in Tacoma.
8 Debwa told us the following in response to our questions (as a note, Debwa's answers
and explanations jumped arouna and often changed throughout the interview):
9
She was hired by Anita Latch to work at ACORN. She and Latch are friends. The first
10 day Debwa went through training and also went into "the field" to register voters.
After the first day Debwa was given the position as the Quality Control person (QC).
11
The Tacoma ACORN office was first in the local library branch.
12
Debwa was trained by Nianna Miller, who is from Florida. Debwa believes Miller works
13 for Project Vote.
14 Latch was in charge of the Tacoma ACORN office, but she was soon fired. Debwa claimed
she did not know why Latch was fired.
15
Debwa said that she was hired in the beginning of the ACORN Tacoma office, and she
16 stayed until the office closed. Debwa said that it was her fault that the voter
applications were turned into King County Elections late.
17
Debwa then explained what she did as QC. She said she receives the voter registration
18 applications at the end of the day and then makes calls on 10-20% to verify that the
phone number are good and that the person's whose name was on the application really
19 registered to vote.
20 She said she called the ones that she knew were good, but not the ones that duplicates
or that looked suspicious. She claimed she could tell by looking at a card if it was
21 bad. She said she was trained by the WA State Liquor Board to recognize legitimate DL
numbers. She said she received this training because she was a bartender at times.
22
SDPA Hobbs showed Debwa ~er employment application and other employment-related
23 documents. Debwa confirmed that they were the forms she completed. She told us that
every employee had to fill out these forms. She confirmed that no backgrounds were
24 done on employees.
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Certification for Determination
of Probable Cause
Norm Maleng,
Prosecuting Attorney
W SS4 King County Courthouse
Seattle, Washington 98104-2312
(206) 296-9000