Cult leader duped politicians
Book on "Malachi" York and his crimes against children details what prosecutor calls his "most significant" case
http://www.nuwaubianfacts.com/2007Jul27.htm
Daily Report online July 27, 2007
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Former GA Governor Roy Barnes declined an interview with the Daily Report about Osinski's book; Ungodly, referring all questions to his former top aide, Bobby Kahn.
In an interview this week, Kahn said that Barnes had been in office less than three months when he first learned of trouble brewing between the Putnam County sheriff and the Nuwaubians.
Kahn confirmed that the Georgia governor was "taking his cues" about York and the Nuwaubians from (state rep & NC Defense Attn)Tyrone Brooks, and from the GBI, which "was concerned we would have another Waco."
Kahn also said that the Putnam County sheriff didn't apprise Barnes of the child molestation allegations and that the governor was made aware only that a potentially violent confrontation was brewing over local code enforcement.
"Our approach to this wasn't who's right and who's wrong, and whose fault it is," Kahn said. "Our concern was how do we avoid a blow-up?"
"Osinski has determined that Sheriff Sills was a hero," said Kahn. "Anything that gets in the way of that, he basically ignores.
If he [Sills] were a hero, he would have told us and would have told the GBI he suspected there was child molestation going on."
But Sills did try, unsuccessfully, to talk to Governor Barnes directly about the Nuwaubians, according to Osinski.
"He wanted to go to Barnes personally and directly. He didn't want to go through the GBI," the journalist said in an interview. But Sills feared that the GBI "might have been compromised" and might leak information about the investigation to York, Osinski explained, because the sheriff was aware that GBI agents had gone to Tama-Re to go fishing. "He simply did not want the GBI to know what the real investigation was."