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City inspectors approved work @ the Hard Rock Hotel site, but GPS shows they weren’t there

Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:37 am
Posted by SPEEDY
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:37 am
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - New Orleans City Hall officials are investigating whether employees signed off on inspections at the construction site of the Hard Rock Hotel without visiting the project.

The construction site collapsed on October 12, 2019, killing three men. The bodies of two of the workers have yet to be recovered from the site. Since the collapse, several agencies have opened investigations into the collapse and the city’s safety and permits office.

FOX 8 News has obtained and analyzed GPS data from the City of New Orleans Department of Safety and Permits that shows several times inspectors logged they signed off on projects at the site, but vehicle data shows they did not visit.


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On July 18, 2019, records from the Department of Safety and Permits showed out of 21 vehicles in service that day not one came close to the Hard Rock Hotel construction site.

The inspections log from the city shows inspector Julie Tweeter signed off on work at the construction site that day, but GPS records from the department’s vehicle fleet seems to tell a different story. Through the data, FOX 8 was able to determine which vehicle Tweeter likely drove. It stopped at her house for nearly two hours around noon but never came close to the Hard Rock site at 1031 Canal Street.


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On September 16, Tweeter also claimed to have visited the site. Records show she noted the construction site ‘passed’ inspection and gave the approval to pour slab on the 17th floor. The GPS records show that day Tweeter came close to the site once, parking at 314 North Rampart, two and a half blocks away from the construction site. The GPS data shows the vehicle was stopped for six minutes. It takes approximately four minutes to walk from that address to the construction site, meaning if the information is accurate, it is unlikely she would have been able to walk to the site, inspect the 17th floor and walk back to her car in six minutes.


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FOX 8 reviewed Safety and Permits GPS data from July 1 until the day of the October collapse and compared that data to the city’s inspection log of the Hard Rock Hotel site. During that time period, city inspectors claimed to visit the Hard Rock site nine times. In our analysis of the data, we found three cases where GPS data shows inspectors parked a city vehicle near the site. There were six instances in the city’s inspection log that do not have corresponding GPS data showing a city vehicle at the Hard Rock site.


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On October 1, less that two weeks before the deadly collapse, Inspector Julie Tweeter noted the hotel site passed a slab inspection, but in the GPS data provided by the city, it does not show a safety and permits vehicle near the site that day.



The city of New Orleans and Julie Tweeter are fricked


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Posted by Anaximander
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:39 am to
Posted by SPEEDY
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:43 am to




Posted by MrLSU
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:44 am to
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Posted by NawlinsTiger9
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Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:48 am to
Holy cow

Seems pretty damning
Posted by Mr Breeze
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:48 am to
In Nola it can be extremely difficult to get permits required to open a new business especially if new or renovation construction is required.

I wonder how Julie's bank account has been looking lately?
Posted by nismosao
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:52 am to
Honestly, she probably had no idea what she was looking at anyways.
Posted by SPEEDY
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:56 am to


Posted by 4LSU2
Member since Dec 2009
37568 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 4:58 am to
While this is definitely a terrible look for the City, the SEOR would be the final inspection agent to "sign-off" on the deck that was to be placed.

Hopefully this report further exposes the frauds at City Hall, but to say they are responsible for the collapse is a huge stretch.

I'm much more anxious to know what entity made the decision to remove the reshores under the decks and what information was used to make these decisions.
Posted by udtiger
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:13 am to
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It stopped at her house for nearly two hours around noon but never came close to the Hard Rock site at 1031 Canal Street


Typical.
Posted by Privateer 2007
Member since Jan 2020
6712 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:17 am to
Regulations and permits etc don't mean shite. Because, those enforcing then typically either lack the knowledge to do so or just don't give a shite.
Posted by thermal9221
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Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:21 am to
You’ve never built a building.
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:25 am to
Well, looks like she will have plenty of time on her hands to protest
Posted by baseballmind1212
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Member since Feb 2011
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:29 am to
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Regulations and permits etc don't mean shite. Because, those enforcing then typically either lack the knowledge to do so or just don't give a shite.


We found the plant operator.
Posted by TH03
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:34 am to
New Orleans is such a shite hole.
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:36 am to
Spend less time melting bout Trump and maybe her life wouldn't have ended up in prison for fraud.

Sweet irony.
Posted by jlc05
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:38 am to
Follow the money to Ms Julie
Posted by MrLSU
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:41 am to
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Follow the money to Ms Julie


She seems like the type of dolt who would follow her superiors orders who are on the take.
Posted by TheHarahanian
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Member since May 2017
20461 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:42 am to

The city that care forgot. Indeed.
Posted by Privateer 2007
Member since Jan 2020
6712 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 5:51 am to
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you've never built a building


Of course we need regulations. But, libs act as if we should just add layer after layer.

I work in a highly regulated industry. Guess what? Most of it is bullshite that's just signed off on etc with little thought or action.
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