Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

1 Debwa said that she sometimes went into the field to check on the workers. She said
that Latch was supposed to be doing this, but she never did. Debwa said she ended up
2 telling Latch what she should be doing. She said she practically ran everything.
3 Debwa again went over some of the QC training she received. She said she received a
training pamphlet that instructed what to do. She said she was instructed to call
4 people and verify the information on the voter registration application. She said a
family member could verify for the person who completed the application. Debwa said
5 she told all employees that the only person that should be completing an application
is the applicant, not the employee. She said the only reason she could think of for
6 the employee to fill out an application was if the person was quadriplegic, and she
said she told the employees this. She said in the event this happened, the employees
7 were instructed to call her.
8 Debwa said it got so she could recognize employee handwriting. She said she fired at
least a few employees because she realized they were completing voter registration
9 applications, meaning they created a fraudulent card.
10 SDPA Hobbs showed Debwa a copy of a "training certificate," which is signed by
employees and shows that they acknowledged receiving training. Debwa confirmed that
11 this was the case.
12 Debwa said that duplicate "cards" (Debwa refers to voter registration applications as
"cards") were a problem and that they appeared often. She explained that duplicate
13 cards were cards which had the same name but a different address.
14 Debwa said that she entered everything into a database on a computer. She said the
computer was supplied by ACORN. She said the computer was sent to ACORN, she thinks
15 to Rhode Island, when the Tacoma office was closed down.
16 Debwa said that after Latch left she trained some employees, but Clifton Mitchell
often did the training. She said that Mitchell took over many other functions after
17 Latch left, including the following: recruiting, finding potential registration sites
and monitoring employees in the field.
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SDPA Hobbs asked Debwa if she knew who Alex King was. She thought for a moment and
19 then said she had to write him up for suspicious cards. When questioned further, she
was not sure if it was King was the person of whom she was thinking.
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Debwa said that her ACORN headquarters contact was Stephanie Moore. She said that
21 Moore was the head political organizer (PO) for the Tacoma office, and offices in
other regions. She said she became the PO for the Tacoma office after Latch left.
22
Debwa said that all QC persons, nation-wide, had a weekly conference call to discuss
23 issues that were arising. Some examples Debwa gave were how to deal suspicious cards
and how to deal with duplicate cards.
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Certification for Determination
of Probable Cause
Norm Maleng
Prosecuting Attorney
W 554 King County Courthouse
Seattle, Washington 98104-2312
(206) 296-9000