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By kateb, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue May 29, 2007 at 04:38:07 PM EST

needs to be mentioned again.

APD is not pursuing forensic evidence or speaking with corroborating witnesses in a very political case I can report on first hand.

Another set of probems is arising now, and the detective on the case is stonewalling.

I wish he handled it better, for his own sake. He knows how to.

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I keep getting to a point (none / 0) (#1)
by kateb on Tue May 29, 2007 at 04:56:58 PM EST

where I ask if THIS is the time to take it public, out there more. I have abundant proof. But because I have abundant proof, the desire to trust the system to work keeps winning out.

I'm angry that law enforcement and political goons treat crime victims this way, but that fact and needing to make it better is the main reason I am continuing.

Just came from a raucous meeting with area crime victims and advocates and have a lot more fire for the road ahead. Doing the dvd and having all the comic material is going to be fun. Thing is, law enforcement and political goons keep giving me more material when I already have enough.

Earlier I walked over to the fort on McCarty Ave to drop something off and left as fast as I could. That part isn't funny yet.

P.S. (none / 0) (#2)
by kateb on Tue May 29, 2007 at 05:04:23 PM EST

Walking back from McCarty Ave, I saw the Freihofer's Outlet store and felt like looking around. And there on the wall was a Boboli two pack of pizza shells on sale. Thanks for the idea, Alfred. I should have taken a picture, for the dvd. Next time!

Not the same (none / 0) (#3)
by AlfredMoisiu on Tue May 29, 2007 at 08:01:34 PM EST

I'm meeting with the US Attorney about my inhuman treatment at the hands of Dominoes.

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Those bastards (none / 0) (#4)
by alfrednewman on Tue May 29, 2007 at 08:07:04 PM EST

I think you should do a DVD to expose their practices.
"What? Me worry? " "whatmeworry.alfred@gmail.com"
[ Parent ]

: Siunds like a smart idea! (none / 0) (#5)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 02:02:23 AM EST

When you look at all the options:
a corrupt Office of Pizza Professional Standards
criminal leaks from the Pizza Command staff
stonewalling on evidence and witnesses by the Albany Pizza Delivery service
no need for money from a drawn out fight over pizza in court
and a desire to do something fun with all the material
Well, I have to agree with Alfred on this one. Do the dvd. Yes, see the US attorney, but do the dvd when that's over.
Good luck!

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kateb (none / 0) (#6)
by DIA on Wed May 30, 2007 at 04:41:25 AM EST

I don't have any official policy posted on what constitutes an appropriate diary on this site but I would ask that you refrain from posting diaries like this. A diary should be substantial and and add something new to a discussion. Posting diaries with headlines like this one and then not reporting anything in the diary is not acceptable. When you have something to report that can be backed up by sources you are welcome to post a diary. Until then I'd appreciate it if you would refrain from these types of posts.

thanks

DIA (none / 0) (#7)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 05:58:30 AM EST

I'm not doing anything different than anybody else. We all voice opinions. I've taken the extra step of saying why I have the opinions I have, unlike a lot of people. Stonewalling, not returning calls as promised, not responding to info requested, not pursuing things that were promised to be done.

I can stick to opinions like everyone else.

I can point to other diaries if you need some comparisons.

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: source: a doc (none / 0) (#8)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 06:09:13 AM EST

to government officials.
    From:     kate
    Subject:     this investigation
    Date:     May 25, 2007 5:27:46 PM EDT
    To:     mtremblay@
    Cc:     dsoares@ , abruno@ , albany@fbi...,
I left two follow up messages this week, to the call on May 8 you promised but never made.
You were in today, Detective's Unit told me. But you still did not call.
Since the week of Feb 26, I have been telling you about forensic evidence left during burglaries that week. As recently as the end of April, you were talking about testing it. You have still done NOTHING.
Just as you never talked to a corroborating witness you've known about since September.
Just as you never sent a forensics team other times when you clearly said you would.
Just as you did not do the pictures that were already scheduled.
Why are trying to avoid the evidence, Mike? Is is best in this case not to have any, when suspects are investigators and cops? When it's all connected to a false arrest by the police chief? When cops told me it was ordered by the mayor?
It's stunning to me, being a witness to all this. It is stunning.
kate

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I want to repeat (none / 0) (#9)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 06:19:17 AM EST

a warning I gave earlier about not using a wireless connection IF you are being targeted by political goons.

kateb (none / 0) (#10)
by DIA on Wed May 30, 2007 at 06:29:22 AM EST

you are doing something different. Other people are writing substantial diaries that are adding something to the site. Like this one:

Devtob attended an event, asked questions of a congresswoman and reported back on a very important issue.

http://www.democracyinalbany.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/5/26/191445/439

That is what the diaries are for. The diary you have posted here is nothing like that. Hell, even our friend Al Newman puts together diaries involving research that add something to the conversation here.

http://www.democracyinalbany.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/5/20/94413/3070

You can disagree with me if you'd like. But you can't post diaries like this one anymore. When you have something substantial to report, feel free to post the information. But the diaries are not meant to be 3 sentence updates of an ongoing issue.

DIA - Thank You (none / 0) (#11)
by nitevision on Wed May 30, 2007 at 06:51:05 AM EST

I have been waiting for months and months for you to take a stand.

I gave up on responding to Kate's nonsensical ramblings. She posts a diary and then responds to herself dozens of times without actually saying anything. I have yet to meet anyone who can understand her rants. Volumes of vague unsubstantiated accusations are inappropriate.

A number of people here believe that it has become obvious that Kateb has some serious mental health issues. Blocking her would be a service to all those who wish debate serious topics. The DA's office, APD, the FBI and the US Attorney are all ignoring her. Please provide her with the opportunity to sling her shotgun over her shoulder and to spend time preparing home-made pizza.

Nitevision (none / 0) (#14)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 07:24:33 AM EST

you're living in a fantasy land, and think you can impose it on other people and silence them with slander. I'd chronicle that too, but it's on someone else's desk.

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: one more thing...... (none / 0) (#25)
by kateb on Thu May 31, 2007 at 11:17:36 AM EST

APD is investigating some things and not others. I've identified problems there.
DA asked what I am seeking, and it is stalled. I have heard this DA can be like that, but I am keeping track of how long it takes.
FBI invited follow up, and I passed it on to the main complainant, then decided to get my part over by summer.
I've been very mild about my complaints, but persistent. And I'll continue on. Ignore it if you don't like it.

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DIA (none / 0) (#12)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 06:56:19 AM EST

Probably the three sentence update wasn't the best way to go if people are not familiar with what I have been chronicling.

As for back ups, there is a long list of sources I posted in another diary which I'll make part of my signature, in a shorter form, which is easier than pulling it up.

As for nitevision, well, s/he just likes to slander people, and I've pointed that out before.

I'll do a link (none / 0) (#13)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 07:16:27 AM EST

to a diary where I spelled out a very detailed list of sources, and I'll bring it up every time I pick up this story. (Champlain did something similar, and it was useful.)

I'll learn how to do links soon. In the meantime, I'm relying on public documents, which is the same idea. Media stories are not the only source of public documents. And as you've pointed out many times, not everything is online. Disposition of city court cases, for example, are not online, but they are just as public. Same with FOILed docs and videos.

But I'll bring that up every time in a link. In the meantime, it will be in my signature.

Next? (none / 0) (#15)
by 1894 on Wed May 30, 2007 at 08:36:40 AM EST

If you have real evidence of APD corruption and incompetence in the DA's office, take it to the mainstream media. Let's all see if there's a legitimate, newsworthy story that can be made out of your "case."

You've threatened to go public before. No time like the present, since you're not getting what you want from law enforcement and the reactions on this blog are, at best, skeptical.

Kudos to DIA for finally exercising editorial control on this one. Long overdue.

: I disagree (none / 0) (#17)
by alfrednewman on Wed May 30, 2007 at 08:49:10 AM EST

A suggestion:
As most of you know I have made several comments that question everything from Kate's ethics, motives, and sanity over the last several months. However, I don't think that she should be shut out of the conversations here. I told her that posting diaries about the same thing is just annoying and it makes us discount what she writes.
At the same time I believe that she has probably faced the problems that she has written about and that she may see her continued updates as a way to either keep pressure up or to provide a means to prevent continued reprisals. Albany thugs, and we all know that they do exist, are not effective if their acts are public.
So Kate, here is a suggestion for you.
Start your own blog. Its easy. Its free and then you can keep all of us updated without having our diary entry's knocked out.
I promise that if you start a blog I will read it and continue to make mean spirited comments.

"What? Me worry? " "whatmeworry.alfred@gmail.com"
[ Parent ]

Links ... (none / 0) (#16)
by 1894 on Wed May 30, 2007 at 08:39:23 AM EST

And if you want to know how to create links, just ask Mr. Google. He knows everything.

I learned (none / 0) (#18)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 09:05:41 AM EST

how to do links. DIA responded to my question with a very helpful web source. I have already tested it twice with success.

As I've said before a few times, at this time in the investigations I am mostly documenting failures, and I feel okay about that role for now. We each have demands made on us at different times. Anyone who knows me knows my favorite role is mediator, reconciler or advocate. I can think of few times in my life when I had to be whistleblower or documenter of public corruption or public failures. "Let's just work it out" is my mantra.

I am well read on the subject of how people slander women so they can discredit the information produced. I will, if I must, proudly join the ranks of women and men who met challenges like that. And it's gone well for me so far. When the same law enforcement people who TOLD me to get a gun stupidly and unlawfully asked me to turn it in, I said fine, but give it back to me in two business days, and they did. When they momentarily tried to suggest paranoia, I said you can have all medical records, which will refute that, but they chose not to pursue it. I will meet all challenges the same way.

So I will proudly document failures and there will be many ways to make a difference when I'm finished.

I'm finally giving (none / 0) (#19)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 12:06:50 PM EST

a friend who asked permission to put some docs on a blog about Albany ineptness and Albany corruption. I think I will limit what I provide at this point to the text of some audio recordings. I don't see a point to putting on the web docs that are FOILable or already in the public domain. My point is not to make people look bad -- I could do FAR more of that if that's what I wanted to do -- but to chronicle my experience through these systems. When I use email here, I'll include a reminder and perhaps a link about FOIL because a lot of people forget, especially in the internet age when they mistakenly think the 'net is the limit of public info.

Why you have zero credibility (none / 0) (#21)
by AlfredMoisiu on Wed May 30, 2007 at 02:37:28 PM EST

The whole fucking site calls you to the carpet, and you post some nonsense about how to FOIL stuff!

Give me a break! Either you have something or you don't.

You've smeared the names of enough people with vague accusations of corruption, dishonesty or incompetence. And all that you have to offer is the promise to at some point release unauthenticated transcripts of conversations that may have taken place in your head.

[ Parent ]

waaaaaaay over the top as usual (none / 0) (#22)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 02:43:29 PM EST

slandering people when nothing else works.

[ Parent ]

but just in case you simply (none / 0) (#23)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 02:48:29 PM EST

read too fast....... that's happened before....

I said I had just decided to okay a friend using a text of audio recordings on a blog. And I did that PRECISELY because it is the ONLY important thing I have that is not accessible publicly. Everything else is in the public domain: courts, media, clerk's offices. This case is so well documented I get why people are reverting to slander.

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If its in the public domain (none / 0) (#28)
by AlfredMoisiu on Thu May 31, 2007 at 08:31:46 PM EST

Just post it. Who is going to waste their time to FOIL some documents to figure out whether your little yarn is reality? Not me.

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: Actually (none / 0) (#29)
by kateb on Thu May 31, 2007 at 11:48:01 PM EST

I posted the info about FOIL because you were so hot to have verification. You want it, you get it. I knew you were just being an ass.

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Actually, AM (none / 0) (#26)
by kateb on Thu May 31, 2007 at 12:50:10 PM EST

what I said most often is they made mistakes. I've also said many times that I can see how law enforcement does that. Sometimes they own up to it. I've heard Bruno mad as hell about things done at the APD on my case. I've heard D'Alessandro explain what went wrong at the DA's office. I've heard Tremblay take responsiblity for mistakes. Sometimes they don't own up to it, or worse repeat the same mistakes, so I decided to just keep chronicling it, good and bad. You didn't get all over my case when I said the good things.

[ Parent ]

A link (none / 0) (#20)
by kateb on Wed May 30, 2007 at 12:38:00 PM EST

to the main sources and to how to get FOILable docs is here.

what a difference a day makes (none / 0) (#24)
by kateb on Thu May 31, 2007 at 09:46:56 AM EST

For months of planning on next stages, like a dvd, I kept hearing this song: Have You Ever Seen the Rain? It fit the story I was hearing and sharing with crime victims on the journey.

Today in the shower found myself singing this one instead:

Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in

Feels more appropriate for this political road.

Yesterday (none / 0) (#27)
by kateb on Thu May 31, 2007 at 01:54:11 PM EST

a victim advocate in Albany invited me over for a lobster dinner and we watched a memorable documentary of this brave woman's story.

There are many women doing brave and life changing things every day in the midst of all kinds of shit. It's good to take note.

Back to the beginning (none / 0) (#30)
by kateb on Fri Jun 01, 2007 at 03:36:22 AM EST

I notified two people in the Albany Police about criminal activity which took place over the weekend, in which I have pictures and forensic evidence. The detective and assistant chief I contacted are both working this week, but neither has responded. (Assistant chief told me to keep him in the loop, but hasn't done anything.)

I notified two people here about the most recent problem with the APD.

There's more to do, but I'll wait and see.

and (none / 0) (#31)
by kateb on Fri Jun 01, 2007 at 07:20:30 AM EST

I dropped more on the desk of these people because serendipitously there was already timely contact, because I had wanted my part to be over by summer.

Somebody in the APD (none / 0) (#32)
by kateb on Sat Jun 02, 2007 at 06:17:05 AM EST

thanked me yesterday for calling attention to problems.

Just want to add (none / 0) (#33)
by kateb on Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 06:06:18 AM EST

since paranoia/crazy talk still gets tossed around by people who weren't there.

I have NEVER been concerned about personal safety, but about the EVIDENCE.

I just want to take care with the evidence, so I'm paying attention to some patterns in law enforcement and documenting it. I already know there will be a good use for it, but like always there are too many options.

Let's hear it ... (none / 0) (#34)
by 1894 on Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 07:12:09 AM EST

This is at least the third diary you posted with "corruption" in the title. What specific corruption have you uncovered and documented?

It's a simple question. Be specific. (Hint: Unreturned phone calls do not equate to public corruption.

Duh (none / 0) (#35)
by kateb on Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 08:49:15 AM EST

Failure to collect evidence.

Failure to test evidence collected.

I'll just repeat the two I gave you here. You read too fast, or just want to criticize and be an ass.

And another two (none / 0) (#36)
by kateb on Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 08:54:36 AM EST

I already mentioned

Failure to release pics

Failure to talk to corroborating witnesses

Again, what corruption? (none / 0) (#37)
by 1894 on Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 01:16:29 PM EST

You suggested I was "stupid" on another thread, and now I'm an "ass." No need to get testy just because I won't enroll in your personal fantasy camp.

I'm merely pointing out the truth -- that you're not delivering on your claims of corruption. That's a big word, and you haven't backed it up. You decide what's evidence, who's a witness, and exactly what the cops and DA should do about it. And when they don't jump through the hoops you've designed, it's incompetence and corruption.

DIA has cut you way too much slack, and his comment earlier in this thread obviously made no difference.

you're wrong (none / 0) (#38)
by kateb on Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 02:04:00 AM EST

There is evidence, in the public domain, and on recordings, and put aside for testing. And you are completely incorrect about the DA. I'm cutting him slack, but I'm going to count the days.

Why don't you just stick to stuff you're not defensive about? Or is there anything like that?

[ Parent ]

: that was cool (none / 0) (#39)
by kateb on Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 02:27:50 AM EST

I just made DIA the DA, since DIA had nothing to do with the investigations!
I already said I'd let a friend put the audio online, and I mentioned it again here in response to YOUR question.
Also, I am commenting on and chronicling how the investigations are proceeding, factually, and not asking everybody to do the APD's job.

[ Parent ]

Here (none / 0) (#40)
by kateb on Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 03:16:50 AM EST

again is the link to a compacted list of sources of public docs. I can be a lot more detailed, and have been before.

Some necessary changes on the horizon (none / 0) (#41)
by kateb on Wed Jun 06, 2007 at 01:30:42 PM EST

and I'm taking a cue from DIA and going on hiatus while I see how it sorts out. It's not a slow news time, but I have better things to talk about.

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