Look who came out of the woodwork: GA informant Deep Uvula (DU).
It had been so long since we'd spoken that I nearly said, "Who?" when he/she found me. Ah, well. I understand.
Silence like a frost has crept through the blogosphere; an eerie winter in June. And DU, that glistening orb of gossip, didn't say much, his/her sullen gloom forecast a coming storm.
The uvulation:
Sorry about the silence, but the suits are nervous about leaks. Any leak. Any kind.
The Feds are fuckin with people’s heads.
That was it.
Kinda cryptic, no?
One can interpret that last statement as either the Feds are just yanking our chains- doubtful they'd dispatch vast resources (Al Sullivan: "...there are between 13 and 15 federal agents involved in the investigation at the moment") for an elaborate poke in the eye- or (more likely) their targets are like a captured mouse that a cat playfully tortures.
Before the kill.
That's how the Feds work. From the bottom up; mind games which slowly, methodically, steadily loosen tongues up through the ranks of a criminal enterprise; fear the lubricant to make rats from men (or women).
Don't think that's not happening here. Now.
A friend of mine who was a criminal defense attorney for many years gave me his read on why the FBI came to Hoboken. His opinion, of course but he knows how the FBI works from personal experience.
He says they're NOT here for the City Hall IT stuff.
They will prosecute that irregardless. But they didn't come all this way, deploying vast resources, for a handful of City Hall employees and political operatives. Though indictments will roll in anyway. Including those for 'peripheral' crimes- things like tax evasion through undeclared money funneled through shell companies. Those indictments are a sure thing- if discovered. My friend tells me members of a criminal enterprise often end up serving time for things like tax evasion, and not the crime for which they were first investigated.
According to him, Zimmer's request for help regarding the email leak was the FBI's 'foot in the door'. An extremely fortuitous one, because servers in their custody are a road map to all corners of Hoboken where email accounts were illegally tapped, documents illegally accessed, and so on. And these City Hall workers and political operatives hauled into the FBI's net are the 'small fish' at the bottom of the pool who 'know stuff', stuff the FBI wants to know, stuff the FBI really came for.
It's all about voter fraud. The FBI came to clean house.
This should fray a lot of people's nerves.
Anyone, anywhere with any involvement in the November 2nd or May 10th 4th Ward VBM harvest may be on a surveillance tape, a phone tap, or already ratted out by another member of the conspiracy who wishes to save their own skin... uncertainty being the FBI 'mind game' tactic which so effectively loosens tongues.
And my former-lawyer friend suggested VBMs were always hand-carried to the Board of Elections to avoid potential mail fraud charges. Mail fraud, like wire fraud, is viewed by the federal government as a serious offense and carries stiff penalties. I'll bet he's right.
As for Beth Mason, GA agrees with him: what she (or her people) told Al Sullivan is spin.
The notion that the FBI would dispatch "13 to 15 federal agents" for leaked emails? Forget it. That she convened a meeting with the FBI and negotiated an arrangement with them? More likely that they called her in for a meeting. The spin is about controlling the story with hopes for a good outcome. Playing the hand she's got.
We should all find out soon enough. My friend suspects the FBI's going to wind this up soon. And told me who he expects to be indicted. But I won't publish that kind of speculation.
Those folks may already know who they are. The rest of us will, eventually.
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