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FBI, police search teachers union
By Associated Press,
© St. Petersburg Times
published April 30, 2003
MIAMI - A public corruption task force searched the offices of Miami-Dade County's teachers union Tuesday, scouring computers and documents and leaving with boxes of records.
FBI agents and Miami-Dade police officers went to the United Teachers of Dade offices to serve a sealed search warrant Tuesday morning and remained there into the afternoon, FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said.
No one was arrested in the search, Orihuela said. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office would not comment further.
Annette Katz, the union's communications director, said the UTD was cooperating. "We were just as surprised as anyone" by the search, Katz said.
The union, led by president Pat Tornillo since the early 1970s, represents teachers in the nation's fourth-largest school district.
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