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FBI Investigates FEMA Flood Map Changes After NBC News ReportBy Bill Dedman at NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/fbi-investigates-fema-flood-map-changes-after-nbc-news-report-n62906
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FBI agents are interviewing employees at FEMA in an investigation of unusual changes in federal flood insurance maps that benefited oceanfront condo buildings with a history of flooding, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
The investigation follows a report by NBC News documenting more than 500 instances in which FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
FBI agents have conducted interviews in Washington over the past 10 days with employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the flood insurance program. Others outside the government also have been interviewed and have voluntarily provided documents, according to two people interviewed by the FBI. Employees at contractors that evaluate the map changes for FEMA are also being interviewed.
Sitting in on the FBI interviews are investigators from the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the sources. FEMA, which has said it would review the flood map changes identified by NBC, is an agency within the DHS .
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FBI Investigates FEMA Flood Map Changes After NBC News Report" (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2014
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Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)1. I hope there are no bribes involved
But it would surprise me if there weren't.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)2. Sounds like some dirty shit going on there...
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)3. Given that FEMA and most other government agencies tend to be run by RWers
and insiders from the industries they are tasked with regulating, this comes as no shock at all.
And the FBI is engaging in kabuki theater and won't find a thing wring.