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"Way Back Jack" <yomamma@home.com> wrote in message
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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3768485,00.html
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> Slaying suspect worked at Hickenlooper eatery
> By April M. Washington And Sarah Langbein, Rocky Mountain News
> May 11, 2005
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> A man suspected in the killing of a cop and the target of a massive
> manhunt worked with false documentation at the Cherry Cricket, a
> restaurant co- owned by Mayor John Hickenlooper, police said Tuesday.
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> Raul Garcia-Gomez, 19, an illegal immigrant, failed to show up for
> work Monday morning at the restaurant in the Cherry Creek retail
> district after the fatal shooting of police Detective Donald Young and
> the wounding of Detective John Bishop early Sunday morning.
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> Lee Driscoll, the mayor's business partner, said Tuesday that the
> company learned last month that Garcia-Gomez provided the restaurant
> with two forms of identification, but the Social Security number he
> provided turned out to be false.
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> Driscoll said Garcia-Gomez's name was on a list he receives annually
> from the Social Security Administration. It indicated Garcia-Gomez's
> information did not match its records.
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> "I learned this morning (Tuesday) that he worked for the restaurant
> when I got a call from the general manager . . . who said the police
> were questioning people," said Driscoll, president of the Wynkoop
> Brewing Co., the parent company of the mayor's restaurants.
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> "He worked as a dishwasher. He worked for us about 10 months. He
> looked like a stellar employee from what I can determine from his
> file."
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> Driscoll is among three business partners who manage Hickenlooper's
> trust that oversees 10 restaurants and other financial holdings.
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> The restaurant is owned in part by Hickenlooper, but the mayor is not
> involved in day-to-day operations at the Cherry Cricket.
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> Driscoll said neither he nor the restaurants' managers had spoken to
> the mayor about Garcia-Gomez's employment.
>
> Hickenlooper said Tuesday that he learned of Garcia-Gomez's ties to
> the Cherry Cricket after he was briefed by his chief of staff, Michael
> Bennet.
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> "Certainly, in the restaurant business everyone is like family," he
> said. "It's stunning to believe someone a part of the family could
> commit such a heinous crime."
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> Hickenlooper said he will not get involved in addressing the hiring
> practices at the restaurants in the trust.
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> He said those decisions will be made by Driscoll and each
> establishment's general manager.
>
> "I'm not instructing the restaurants to do anything," Hickenlooper
> said. "They're their own ship, running their own course. The reason I
> put them in trust was so that I could focus my attentions on running
> the city. My only interest is catching the guy and bringing him to
> justice."
>
> Cherry Cricket managers told police that Garcia-Gomez presented a
> resident-alien card when he applied for the job, according to a police
> source close to the investigation. The card was handed over Monday and
> gave the police their first photo of the suspect - albeit an unclear
> one.
>
> "You could see that this card was fake," said the police source, who
> added that the card was falling apart and typewritten.
>
> Police continued to stake out the Cherry Cricket on Tuesday to see if
> Garcia-Gomez would be brazen enough to return for a paycheck he hadn't
> picked up.
>
> Driscoll said he believed the restaurant complied with the letter of
> the law. It took a copy of Garcia-Gomez's Social Security card and a
> copy of his resident-alien card that appeared to be in order and
> legal. The card included his photo, fingerprint and a seal from the
> U.S. Department of Justice that appeared official.
>
> Driscoll said the company is currently meeting with the management of
> all its restaurants to provide them with a list of workers whose
> information did not match Social Security's records, but had not yet
> met with the Cherry Cricket's management.
>
> Employers need only check two forms of identification "that reasonably
> appear to be genuine," according to federal immigration rules.
>
> U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo on Tuesday blasted the Hickenlooper
> administration's handling of the case.
>
> The Littleton Republican said U.S. immigration officials should have
> been contacted after each of three traffic citations issued to
> Garcia-Gomez in Denver because police could not confirm his legal
> status.
>
> "Denver's sanctuary policy prevents local law enforcement from
> cooperating with federal officials on immigration matters, despite
> federal law which explicitly prohibits such a policy," Tancredo
> charged in a news release.
>
> Tancredo also questioned whether the Cherry Cricket had taken proper
> steps to verify Garcia-Gomez's legal status when he was hired.
>
> Tancredo had his own brush with such questions in September 2002 when
> reports surfaced that some of the workers who helped on a basement
> remodeling project at Tancredo's home were illegal immigrants.
>
> Tancredo maintained at the time that he simply hired a contractor and
> didn't have "the foggiest idea of whether the people hired by the
> company I hired were illegal."
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> Driscoll said the restaurants in Hickenlooper's trust employ more than
> 500 employees in an industry in which turnover is common.
>
> "Everyone knows there's an issue of illegal aliens working a bunch of
> jobs in this country, and particularly in the restaurant business," he
> said.
>
> "Once John decided to run for mayor, we did the research to make sure
> we understood the law clearly in this office."
>
How long will Americans tolerate the Washington DC scum who place American's
in harm's way?

Hank

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