Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

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1 SDPA Hobbs went to the car and brought back some paperwork. He showed to Johnson
photocopies of voter registration applications with initials she identified as her
2 own. She also identified initials belonging to Jayson Woods.
3 At the beginning of our conversation Johnson denied any wrong-doing. She said that
she wrote down what she saw on a person's ID. She said she actually completed the
4 applications on several occasions, but that the person who was registering to vote
would sign the application.
5
When confronted again, Johnson said, "At most, I maybe made up a few." She said she
6 used a phonebook or the newspaper to get names for the applications she made up.
7 SDPA Hobbs showed Johnson examples of signatures on the forged forms, and Johnson
agreed that she had signed those signatures, even going so far as to point out tha~
8 the way she writes a "T" is unique.
9 When asked, Johnson said that Jayson Woods did the same thing, but that she didn't
know how many he made up.
10
When asked whose idea it was, she said that Clifton Mitchell told her and Woods to
11 make up the names for the applications. He told them to look in phonebooks and
newspapers, and he told them to make up ID numbers and Social Security Numbers.
12
Johnson said that Mitchell would often sit in the library and make up voter
13 registration applications. She said he used the library'S phone books and newspapers.
She said sometimes he just made them up out of his head, and she said she did that
14 sometimes, too. She also saw Woods do this.
15 Johnson, went confronted further, admitted that she made up most of the applications
she submitted.
16
I showed Johnson DOL pictures of other suspects (minus the names), and she identified
17 the following persons: Debwa, Mitchell and Ryan Olson. She said she thought Olson
was making up applications, but did not see him doing it.
18
Johnson agreed to meet with SDPA Hobbs again at a later date.
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May 22, 2007
20 Johnson provided a detailed tape recorded interview on this date .. The interview is a
repeat of the above interview, but in more detail. A transcript is attached to the
21 case file.
22 July 24, 2007
Called Tina Johnson.
She told me the following in response to my questions:
23
Tina Johnson said that some of the card she did in Tacoma, towards the end, were
24 fraudulent, but she did not remember how many. She said Clifton Mitchell told her and
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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