{"id":181776,"date":"2016-03-20T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/20\/how-convenient-16\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T22:41:00","slug":"how-convenient-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/20\/how-convenient-16\/","title":{"rendered":"How Convenient?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The office in Flint Michigan that stores their water records has been burgled, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/index.ssf\/2016\/03\/break-in_where_water_files_sto.html\">police chief is calling it an inside job<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mystery still surrounds an unsolved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/index.ssf\/2016\/01\/city_hall_office_containing_wa.html\">December break-in at an executive office<\/a> inside City Hall where Flint water files were kept. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As of Friday, March 18, there were still no suspects in the case, and officials say it may never be known what &#8212; other than a TV &#8212; was taken. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the city&#8217;s new police chief Tim Johnson says it&#8217;s too suspicious that there was a break-in where important documents were kept, just as  investigations began heating up and decision makers were beginning to be held accountable. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;It was definitely an inside job. The power cord (to the TV) wasn&#8217;t even taken. The average drug user knows that you&#8217;d need the power cord to be able to pawn it,&#8221; Johnson said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">An employee returning to work at City Hall, 1101 S. Saginaw St., after the holiday break on Monday, Dec. 28, discovered a broken window and the break-in. No other offices were disturbed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Flint Mayor Karen] <span style=\"color: blue;\">Weaver did not say exactly where the room was located in the suite, but did say a window was broken in an apparent effort to access to the area.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;They had to know what room to go into, I could just say that,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This does sound a like a Nixonian rat-f%$#ing, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office in Flint Michigan that stores their water records has been burgled, and the police chief is calling it an inside job: Mystery still surrounds an unsolved December break-in at an executive office inside City Hall where Flint water files were kept. As of Friday, March 18, there were still no suspects in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,970,1052,969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}