Six month old evidence that the Fed hired thousands of criminals to do census

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Census Probably Hired Thousands of Violent Criminals to Canvass Your Home
http://www.frumforum.com/census-may-have-hired-violent-criminals-to-canvass-your-home
October 7th, 2009 at 9:12 pm by Tim Mak

A Senate Subcommittee hearing today revealed that nearly 36,000 Census Bureau employees were hired despite the fact that the fingerprint component of their criminal record checks was botched. Despite additional name checks recommended by the FBI, the GAO said that it was possible that more than 200 employees hired by the Census Bureau had criminal records, and were in contact with the public while canvassing for the ongoing 2010 census.

Robert Goldenkoff, the Government Accountability Office’s Director for Strategic Issues, said that the criminal record checks were bungled because of poor staff training. Bureau staff with less than 2 hours of training in fingerprinting ruined about a fifth of the 162,000 necessary criminal record checks.

If the properly processed criminal record checks are any indication, the Bureau may have let a large number of violent criminals slip through the cracks. Of the prints that were properly checked, about one percent, or 1,800 workers, had criminal records that name checks failed to identify.

Of these 1,800 workers with criminal records, about 750 had their employment terminated or further reviewed due to criminal records that included crimes like rape, manslaughter and child abuse. Projecting these numbers to the employees with spoilt prints, the GAO came up with the figure of 200 census workers that may have had serious criminal records.

There are also issues of cost – each fingerprint test costs $17.25, whether or not the fingerprints were properly taken. This means that over $615,000 was wasted by the Census Bureau due to poor fingerprinting practices. Because of the confusion over fingerprinting, the agency spent $6 million more than they originally budgeted.

Further tarnishing the Census Bureau’s image is the hearing’s disclosure of address canvassing overruns of over 25%. Address canvassing is when census staff verify addresses on-site, so as to keep the Bureau’s address list accurate. While the Bureau had projected that its costs for address canvassing would be around $356 million, it spent $88 million more than it originally estimated.

Of even greater concern is the fact that the GAO still does not have an accurate estimate about how much the 2010 Census will cost. In 2004, the GAO had estimated that the cost of the 2010 census could be over $11 billion. The most recent Census Bureau estimate is now $14.7 billion, a number that the GAO has said it is unable to verify “because key details and assumptions are unavailable.” In the report submitted for today’s hearing, the GAO criticized the Census Bureau for a “long-standing weakness in [its] ability to develop credible and accurate estimates for the 2010 census.”

Indeed, the GAO points out that the Census’ previous cost estimates lacked significant amounts of documentation on data sources and assumptions, and did not include all costs.

The organization was already reported to have been behind schedule for the 2010 Census, and now faces an even bigger challenge. The exposure of these glaring problems at the Census Bureau will mar the organization’s reputation, and in particular could drive down the census participation rate. If these problems aren’t addressed, people may be wary of opening their doors to census staff who have not been properly vetted for criminal records.

These unexpected revelations may wreck steadily improving relations between the Republican Party and Dr. Robert Groves, the Democratically-appointed Census Bureau Director. In an interview with NewMajority yesterday, Brock McCleary, a spokesman for Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), the ranking member on the House subcommittee for the Census said: “Groves is winning friends on the Hill, on both sides of the aisle… I can’t sit and identify anything that at this moment is a grave threat.”

Republicans will no doubt now be able to identify more than a few grave threats facing the census bureau.

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Volunteer Census Worker Arrested for Rape
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-census-worker-rapist,0,655773.story
Fox59
2:09 PM PDT, May 13, 2010

PEKIN, Ind. -- A U.S. Census worker has been charged with rape and burglary, after two women claim they were attacked.

One of the victims was a 21 year-old physically handicapped woman.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 39 year-old Daniel Miller had been with the agency for two weeks.

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The attack occurred Saturday morning in Pekin, Indiana in Washington County.

Police said the man broke in while a mother and daughter slept and attacked them.

The attacker left his blue jeans, T-shirt, underwear, boots and wallet with his driver's license in the woman's bedroom, authorities said.

Police said they found Miller five hours later at his apartment, naked and with a blood-alcohol level of 0.03, reports WHAS-11, a Louisville, Ky., television station.

Police said Miller visited the 21-year-old's home four days earlier as part of his job with the Census Bureau.

Four days before the attack, neighbors in the area say they saw Miller in the area on census business.

The victim told police Miller had asked about their census information.

She said they had already submitted the form.

She also told police that Miller stuck around and tried to get more details.

"It's unbelievable that somebody could do something like that and not have a conscience and worry about it," said resident Debbie Bishop.

Miller was taken to the Washington County Detention Center, held on a $150,000 bond.

In a separate incident in Texas, three men who said they were census workers barged into a Houston home the afternoon of May 8 and stabbed the owner, Reginald Keith Haynes, to death.

The attack began when the victim's son answered the door.

He and his girlfriend were tied up while the attackers ransacked the house, authorities said.

Haynes' wife came home later and was also tied up.

When Haynes got home, he was ambushed.

The intruders dunked his head underwater in a bathtub before stabbing him, reports the Houston Chronicle.

The attack didn't end until nearly four hours later.

There are about 635,000 U.S. Census workers currently going door to door counting Americans who did not return their surveys.

They will carry white badges with blue writing. The badges do not have photos.

Census workers should also be carrying black canvas shoulder bags and brochures printed in 51 languages.

If asked, the census takers are supposed to give you a supervisor's number to call.

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US Census Workers Knocking on Your Neighbors’ Doors, Looking for Snitches in Memphis
http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/05/14/us-census-workers-knocking-on-your-neighbors-doors-looking-for-snitches-in-memphis/
by SusanAnne Hiller

Just when we thought flag@whitehouse.gov–which appears to be alive and well when clicked–was scary and invasive–it seems the Obama administration’s Census Bureau has outdone itself.  A US census worker, driving a metallic gray Ford Taurus-type car, has been reported to be combing through the Memphis, TN suburb of Germantown knocking on doors asking people for information on their neighbors.


Yes, you read that correctly. The US census worker was asking how many people lived in the house next door on or about April 1, 2010. As if there wasn’t enough controversy with the census already, this just adds fuel to the fire.

According to the source, here’s what happened when Obama’s Orwellian Big Brother knocked:

The census worker identified himself, showed his credentials, and continued to ask if she knew if the house next door was occupied on April 1 of this year.  The census worker also indicated that he had “difficulty” contacting the neighbors.  After the source confirmed the house was occupied on April 1st, the census worker continued by asking, “How many people occupied that house?”

My source responded by saying, “If they haven’t filled out their census, I can’t help you and I have no intention of telling you anything about my neighbors and your recourse is to enforce your penalties.”

The worker replied, “Well you know why we take the census don’t you?”

My source replied, “Yes, in this case, to redistribute my wealth.  And you are not permitted to ask me about my neighbors.”

The worker went on to say that the census is used to figure out the number of representatives and federal monies that would be allocated.  The source still refused to answer and the census worker was asked to leave the property.

He then proceeded to knock on the other neighbor’s doors, apparently, to get the information he was sent our for.  Let’s just hope that these people are not attorneys because this is a clear violation of the privacy and security procedures of the census to ensure an accurate and secure count.  Nowhere in this information does it say your neighbors can provide census information.


In addition to this, last evening another source–in the neighboring suburb of Cordova, TN–had a 15-minute telephone conversation with a US census worker. The census worker asked questions regarding anyone currently living in a nursing home, a child’s address at college (when the student already filled out a census form), handicapped persons in the household, and anyone who may have lived there on April 1, 2010 and moved out after April 1, 2010.

This is a clear abuse of the protocols set forth to ensure the accuracy, privacy, and security of the census.  Additionally, I find it disturbing that so many items from the Obama administration need branding and clarification, including the census, healthcare, immigration, global warming [rebranded to] climate change, and basically any other issue they take on. Everything is broken, has been branded, and has a rhetoric-laden marketing plan.  Oddly, this administration shuns the branding of products, foods, and the very companies that create jobs for millions of Americans.

For those on the left who cling to the old-school, no rules, free-living, liberal-Democrat roots, it’s time to wake up and see how alarming and further polarizing this move on the part of the government truly is. When will the mask of “good will” be ripped off the left and understood for the intrusive nature and oppression that it entrenches.  This administration has continually displayed, through their sophomoric agitation of the people, that they have no conscious when it comes to pitting Americans against one another to achieve their goals.

On a final note, it should be reassuring to the people of Tennessee that the Obama administration does indeed know that the people of  TN exist.

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NJ Mom Recognizes Census Worker as Sex Offender
Woman recognizes a door-to-door census worker from the state sex-offender registry
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/NJ-Mom-Recognizes-Census-Worker-as-Sex-Offender-94185994.html
By TERESA MASTERSON
Updated 2:32 PM EDT, Wed, May 19, 2010

A man with a U.S. census badge knocked on Amy Schmalbach’s door on May 4. Thinking that answering the door to a government worker was a safe bet, she did. And then she wondered why he looked so familiar.

As soon as the man left her Pennsauken home, Schmalbach realized where she had seen him before: on the state’s sex-offender registry.

"I figured this is a government worker, I'm safe," Schmalbach, 33, told the Inquirer. She had given him names and birthdates of her family to the man who called himself “Jamie.”

The man’s real name is Frank J. Kuni, but goes by many aliases, including Jamie Shepard. It was under the name “Jamie Shepard” that he applied for a door-to-door job with the census bureau.

Schmalbach verified on the sex-offender registry that the man who was knocking on doors in her neighborhood was indeed the 47-year-old Kuni who has been convicted of assaulting an underage girl, and having “inappropriate contact with two other victims,” according to the registry.

Then Schmalbach called police and warned her neighbors.

"If I had not recognized who this person was, none of my neighbors would have, and I believe he would have continued to go door to door," Schmalbach told the Inquirer.

Kuni was arrested Monday on charges of false representation and impersonating a public official, according to police.

A census official told the Inquirer that a “Jamie Shepard” had been hired in late April after passing the name check, but was fired May 5, as he failed the fingerprint check.

The census hired about 600,000 people to work home visits in the last week of April, Fernando E. Armstrong, director for the Philadelphia region, told the Inquirer.

"When you are looking at 600,000 people going through this check, you can understand that it doesn't always work the way it should," Armstrong said.