Feds get files from recovery nonprofit
New reports allege that NOAH paid for work that wasn’t done
The Times-Picayune
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By Andrew Vanacore
Federal investigators collected documents Monday from the shuttered New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corp., the city-chartered and city-financed nonprofit that ran a home-remediation program in 2006 and 2007.
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Damaged police station found unlocked
Confidential files strewn everywhere
Saturday, June 07, 2008
By Brendan McCarthy
Staff writer
The New Orleans Police Department said Friday afternoon it is investigating a burglary into its storm-damaged station in the 9th Ward — not long after a television reporter and officials from the Metropolitan Crime Commission walked into the open building to investigate why it had not been secured.
The burglary investigation apparently stems from a WWL-TV news report that found the 5th District police station unsecured — one door unlocked and another wide open — with sensitive files and internal documents in plain view. …
Rafael Goyeneche, president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, joined the TV crew inside the abandoned station and commented on the scene for the television report.
“For their preliminary investigation, they must have watched the news,” he told The Times-Picayune Friday night.
“You are talking, at the minimum, hundreds of police reports, quite possibly, thousands,” he said of the scene. “In some rooms they were deposited in heaps on the floor. That means the furniture was removed but the reports were left on the floor. They left the most sensitive stuff in the station unattended for 2 1/2 years.”
Some documents were marked confidential and many contained sensitive information. Police reports typically list victim’s names, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, addresses and more.
In another room, Goyeneche said, dozens of internal investigation files of police officers were open. He also saw internal documents belonging to the district attorney’s office.
Goyeneche, who as head of the watchdog organization often critiques the department, said the NOPD must conduct an internal investigation.
“If anyone is upset at the Police Department, they need to direct their anger internally to identify which individuals were responsible for allowing this breach of security to exist,” he said. “This is a perfect reason why we need an inspector general and an independent police monitor to look into this.”
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