Jail auditor says he caught four deputies shredding documents

[Joanne98]

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Jail auditor says he caught four deputies shredding documents
By R. Robin McDonald, Staff Reporter
http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/new_singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=6%2F13%2F2007%4013784_Public_.htm

A CALL to a federal judge’s chambers Monday led the court-appointed auditor of the troubled Fulton County Jail to discover four county deputies shredding documents in the jail’s locked internal affairs space.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Senior Judge Marvin H. Shoob took sworn testimony from auditor Riley Taylor to place details of the shredding incident on record if the U.S. attorney decides prosecution is warranted.

David E. Nahmias, the U.S. attorney for Georgia’s northern district, attended Tuesday’s hearing—stemming from an ongoing case about health and safety conditions at the jail. Nahmias declined to say whether his office will investigate, adding he was “just here to watch.”

Shoob said from the bench that he dispatched Taylor to the jail after his office was alerted that jail documents were being shredded. Taylor testified that after getting Shoob’s call, he immediately called the jail and dispatched a deputy sheriff’s major to the internal affairs unit that jail administrator John Gibson oversaw.

Taylor said he was talking to the major when he when he discovered the four deputies and halted the shredding. Taylor said the documents to be shredded included overtime requests, inmate complaints, letters from inmates’ attorneys and invoices.

Taylor said the deputies had already shredded four large bags of documents and were preparing to shred an additional 8-inch stack when they were stopped. Gibson, who resigned Monday, was not in the office when Taylor arrived, and the jail auditor said after the hearing that he did not talk to him.

Gibson’s resignation came a day before Shoob was to meet with county lawyers and the sheriff. Shoob said at the hearing that he had intended to tell the sheriff to “get rid of” Gibson or he would order his removal and hold him in contempt for non-compliance with standing court orders involving jail conditions.
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[Double T]

1. Government corruption everywhere; at all levels, in all places.

[kestrel91316]

2. Looks like the Dominionists have about finished their infiltration

and sabotage of all levels of government. They are getting sloppy in their hubris and got caught in this instance.

[LiberalFighter]

3. I hope Gibson is prosecuted and serves jail time

The deputies that were shredding documents should also be prosecuted.