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arminius wrote:
> "Way Back Jack" <yomamma@home.com> wrote in message
> news:1115828006.cbc267d53cccb7be13bcd2418e4c64ec@bubbanews...
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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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > "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.
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > Driscoll is among three business partners who manage Hickenlooper's
> > trust that oversees 10 restaurants and other financial holdings.
> >
> > The restaurant is owned in part by Hickenlooper, but the mayor is
> > not
> > involved in day-to-day operations at the Cherry Cricket.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > Hickenlooper said he will not get involved in addressing the hiring
> > practices at the restaurants in the trust.
> >
> > 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."
> >
> > 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?

So when you gonna take it to GW Bu$h you spinless coward?


>
> Hank
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