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BROWN: This kind of thing, I honestly dread in life, if it were to happen to me. Mike Brown, who runs FEMA, of course, has been a dominate newsmaker now for almost two weeks and one of the things that reporters do when you are in the news all the time and there is any controversy attached to you, is actually look at your resume and check it out, which is what "Time" magazine did on Mr. Brown and is raising some questions. Carolina Miranda is one of the reporters who worked on the story and she joins us now.
So, what did you find?
CAROLINA MIRANDA, "TIME" MAGAZINE: Hello?
BROWN: Hi, what did you find?
MIRANDA: Well, we found several things and they're kind of complicated discrepancies, but discrepancies, nonetheless. The most significant of which is that in a 2001 press release from the White House it lists Brown as having worked for -- as an assistant city manager in the city of Edmond, Oklahoma, from 1975 to 1978, quote unquote, "Overseeing the Emergency Services division."
Now, what we found is that during that time period, he was not an assistant city manager, he was an assistant to the city manager, which is a purely administrative position and did not have oversight over anybody or anything, or certainly not any city agencies in Edmond.
BROWN: Actually, the way -- I mean, the way of -- just skimming the article, which is on the website, it describes it as almost an intern's position.
MIRANDA: Yes, that's exactly as it was put to us, the head of public relations there said that it was -- it's a position for a recent college grad or a college student interested in learning about city government, this would be the job they take.
BROWN: And Mr. Brown, through his P.R. people says what to this?
MIRANDA: Well, he says that he did begin at the city manager's office as an intern, but that he eventually became an assistant city manger and he went on to oversee several other things, but we, according to the records, and according to the spokespeople at the city manger's office, we -- all we have on record is that he was an assistant from 1977 to 1980. That's all we have.
BROWN: Um, did you find any other significant discrepancies, Carolina, between what Mike Brown says he did in his life and he certainly doesn't claim to have run any gigantic emergency services in his life -- any significant discrepancies beyond that on his resume?
MIRANDA: Well, the other things are defiantly smaller things, but I think they're still curious because they are fairly significant discrepancies. One on his FindLaw profile, which is a legal website where attorneys update their profiles, he says that he was a professor of political science at Central State University in Oklahoma, and according to the university, he was never a professor there. And he also says that he severed as director for and old folks home in Oklahoma in Edmond called the Oklahoma Christian Home and we've spoken to several people at them, including people who've been at them home since 1981 and they say they have no recollection of ever dealing with Michael Brown in any way.
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