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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Cafasso's case has been transferred to the FBI
It is no longer being held by the Indiana state conservation department; and this is worrying because the FBI HAS USED CAFASSO AS A SOURCE. According to my contacts, Kathrym Cramer's apple laptop is now in the hands of the FBI.
The White Plains New York FBI department had an open file on Cafasso once, and they didn't pursue it. It will be interesting to see if these flatfooted keystone cops do anything with it THIS time, even though they have all the evidence they could ever hope for in their hot little hands.
joe cafassoLabels: fbi, joe cafasso, robert stormer
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Saturday, February 07, 2009
Cafasso as Stormer and his sloppy reporting
When reading over at Causal Nexus this morning about how less-than-impressive Cafasso is as Robert Stormer when he attempts to "investigate" the failure of EPIRB systems and encourage people to write their representatives to spur investigations, I began looking around for other examples.
It is not only Cafasso's signature temper, and desire to have people killed that sets him apart from the other investigators, it is what the writer at PANBO summarizes in this post:
Conclusion? Stormer’s sloppy Ellie B./Adriatic example does not illustrate why Congress should push the Coast Guard to better investigate EPIRBs problems, as he claims, but instead how the USCG already does such investigations when appropriate. It also suggests how deeply shoddy and biased his investigative reporting really is. A motivated high school student could do better, and more balanced, Web research in a day than he’s managed in a year. Stormer’s “investigation” sure looks like a self-aggrandizing vendetta—facts and critics be damned—and nothing but a disservice to mariners, equipment manufacturers, the USCG, and the whole SARSAT community.
It was pointed out by CN that there are some who readily recognized Cafasso as someone who doesn't know what he's talking about. Saying that you have credentials such as a degree in engineering and actually having a degree in engineering - are two completely different things. If he were qualified to speak on these issues, he wouldn't be caught plagiarizing, and wouldn't be caught mis-reading the very articles he references. He can't even draw reasonable conclusions.
His negative reporting demonstrates yet another attempt to bamboozle not only people who are interested in exposing maritime accidents and the failures of the systems that put lives at risk, it reveals his desire to drag government agencies and government entities into it.
He is famous for conracting and filing fictitious complaints and reports with government agencies; it's part of his schtick.
joe cafassoLabels: Congress, criminal identity theft, embezzlement, embezzler, france, fraud, government, hurricane andrea, joe cafasso, JP, lawsuit, rob stormer, robert stormer, robin storm, shipwreck
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
aggravated identity theft
Aggravated identity theft is when someone uses a false identity to do somethng like borrow money.
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 > § 1028 § 1028A. Aggravated identity theft
That is what Robert Stormer, aka Joe Cafasso did in Indiana and when he was running around in Florida after that shipwreck. He most certainly did that under the name of Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood.
According to the law, if he'd shown up at Western Union and provided the documentation he showed in Indiana to prove he was Robert Stormer, that would have been illegal, too.
According to the law - if I'm reading it correctly - someone found guilty of such an offense isn't even allowed to go on parole.
It would be interesting to see if what he's done qualifies as terrorism, according with this:
(2) Terrorism offense.— Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated in section 2332b (g)(5)(B), knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person or a false identification document shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 5 years.
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