Injunction Junction, Ken Buck chapter

Ken Buck thought he should be Senator instead of Michael Bennet. Good thing the voters were smarter than Buck gave them credit for...


Judge Issues Permanent Injunction Against DA, Weld sheriff in Operation Number Games

By Nate A. Miller
nmiller@greeleytribune.com,

A Larimer District Court judge has put a formal end to efforts on the part of Weld District Attorney Ken Buck and Weld County Sheriff John Cooke to crack down on illegal immigration and identity theft using records from a Greeley tax preparer.

In a decision Tuesday, District Judge Stephen Schapanski made permanent a temporary injunction issued against Buck and Cooke in April. The ruling directs the Weld County court clerk to destroy all copies of information obtained from the search and seizure of tax files from Amalia’s Translation & Tax Service in Greeley in 2008. Weld authorities also are forbidden from using any information learned from the contents of those files.

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The ACLU issued a release Wednesday that called Schapanski’s ruling the final nail in the coffin for Operation Number Games.

Operation Number Games began in November 2008 when authorities seized 4,900 tax records of suspected illegal immigrants in a raid of Amalia’s Translation & Tax Service, 1501 9th St. in Greeley. Deputies searched through 5,000 records and found evidence of roughly 1,330 suspected illegal immigrants filing tax returns with false or stolen Social Security numbers. The Internal Revenue Service requires everyone to file tax returns, regardless of citizenship. In cases where filers do not have valid Social Security numbers, the IRS issues individual taxpayer identification numbers.

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