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| 9 indicted on charges of accessing Obama records |
| 2010-05-13 |
| DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney's office said a grand jury returned the indictments in U.S. District Court in Davenport. All nine are charged with exceeding authorized computer access. They are accused of gaining access to a computer at a Coralville office where they worked between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing Obama's student loan records while he was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president. U.S. attorney spokesman Mike Bladel referred questions to online copies of the indictments. Each of eight indictments posted by Wednesday night were brief, saying the charged individual "intentionally exceeded authorized access to a computer and thereby obtained information from a department and agency of the United States" and "intentionally accessed student loan records" of Obama without authorization. Those charged are Andrew J. Lage, 54, Patrick E. Roan, 51, Sandra Teague, 54 and Mercedes Costoyas, 53, all of Iowa City; Gary N. Grenell, 58, and Lisa Torney, 49, of Coralville; Anna C. Rhodes, 32, of Ainsworth; Julie L. Kline, 38, of West Branch; and John P. Phommivong, 29, for whom no hometown was listed. Lage told The Associated Press on Wednesday evening he did not know about the indictment and declined comment. Messages were left for Teague, Torney and Costoyas. A telephone listing for Kline rang unanswered and a listing for Rhodes was disconnected. No telephone numbers were immediately found for Phommivong, Roan or Grenell. Six of them are accused of accessing Obama's records when he was a candidate, according to the indictments online. One is accused of accessing the records when he was president-elect. An indictment for the ninth defendant was not immediately available online. Court records did not name the contractor that employed the defendants. Arraignments are scheduled for May 24. The charge is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000. Didn't know if this should be posted under 'terror networks.' I went with 'Lurid Crime Tales.' This might get very interesting. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Maybe "President Transparency" will give the 9 a pass and release the records....? |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2010-05-13 17:52 |
| #4 I'd be more than amused if the loans were made to an Indonesian student applicant. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-13 17:33 |
| #3 I really don't care and we don't need to know about his student loan records. Its was wrong when they did it to Bush and it is wrong to do this to Obama. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-05-13 17:21 |
| #2 Something Obama doesn't want us to see/know about, Probably either unpaid, or the name of the payee isn't him. It would tickle the shit out of me if the payee was an islamic Imam. It would also get him Impeached, so we sheeple mustn't know. This requires further investigation as to WHAT he's hiding, You know, like the Birth certificate we can't see. Maybe the name's different? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-05-13 15:10 |
| #1 I wonder what was on the student loan records? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-13 09:39 |