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Landeros Working for U.N., Not DynCorp
RECEIVED Tue., June 20, 2006
Dear Editor,
Unless the United Nations has recently become a division of DynCorp, former APD Assistant Chief Rudy Landeros is not now, and never has been, employed by DynCorp as stated by Mr. King in his article regarding Stan Knee ["Good Morning, Afghani-Stan!," News, June 16]. Rudy left APD in March of this year to serve as a senior police advisor for the United Nations Integrated Office for Sierra Leone, a fact reported by both the Austin American-Statesman and, if I am not mistaken, the Chronicle. Whatever point Mr. King was trying to make, perhaps he should have done a little better job fact-checking when citing A.C. Landeros' new job as an example. Perhaps a correction is in order. Thanks.
Unless the United Nations has recently become a division of DynCorp, former APD Assistant Chief Rudy Landeros is not now, and never has been, employed by DynCorp as stated by Mr. King in his article regarding Stan Knee ["Good Morning, Afghani-Stan!," News, June 16]. Rudy left APD in March of this year to serve as a senior police advisor for the United Nations Integrated Office for Sierra Leone, a fact reported by both the Austin American-Statesman and, if I am not mistaken, the Chronicle. Whatever point Mr. King was trying to make, perhaps he should have done a little better job fact-checking when citing A.C. Landeros' new job as an example. Perhaps a correction is in order. Thanks.
Ann Landeros
[Michael King responds:
Ann Landeros is right; I should have done a better job of fact-checking. Although the previously published reports did not specify the precise nature of former APD Asst. Chief Rudy Landeros' new employment, I apologize for getting it wrong, having misunderstood a passing reference by former Chief Knee. Thanks to Mrs. Landeros, readers should understand that Rudy Landeros is employed directly by the U.N. and not through a private subcontractor. I apologize for the error.]
