FEMA wants over $300M in Katrina aid back

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070206/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_fraud

NEW ORLEANS - In the neighborhood
President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.

Now the government wants back a lot of the money it disbursed across the region.

The Federal Emergency Management Administration has determined nearly 70,000 Louisiana households improperly received $309.1 million in grants, and officials acknowledge those numbers are likely to grow.

In the chaotic period after two deadly hurricanes, Katrina and Rita, slammed the Gulf Coast in 2005 — Katrina making landfall in late August, followed by Rita in late September — federal officials scrambled to provide help in hard-hit areas such as submerged neighborhoods near the French Quarter.

[ixion]

1. hmmm... then who the hell did they give the money to? It wasn't the

residents of N.O., obviously.

Way to go, F.E.M.A. :eyes:

[babylonsister]

2. Jeebus, can't these people do anything right? nt

[schmuls]

3. No

[catgirl]

4. "federal officials scrambled to provide help"...

What a load of crap. I was there four times after the storm
as an animal rescue volunteer (pets don't matter to the feds),
and I didn't see any scrambling on the part of the feds.

My husband's down there right now, and he said it doesn't
look like much has happened in the affected neighborhoods.

[saigon68]

6. The Corporations swallowed the $$$

[SutaUvaca]

5. Get it back from who, Mr. Chimp?

Aren't the ones you want in your own little black address book!?
Go ask THEM for your money.

[Virginia Dare]

7. While they're at it...

I'd like to get a few hundred billion back from Iraq. :freak:

[LiberalFighter]

8. Easy way to screw the govt and give the money to their buddies

Use a disaster to hide the transactions.

[goclark]

9. And billions can come up missing in Iraq

and not one word is spoken! :puke:

[goforit]

10. LOL!!! I would like to see if they collect it.

[HuffleClaw]

11. how they came with this determination...

checked voting registry records...

[sandnsea]

12. Gosh, 2 families in one house

But those 2 families can't rent a place together after they've been diplaced and consequently becomes two households.

Fuckers do not understand poverty AT ALL.

[xxqqqzme]

13. well, it's a good thing lieberman will NOT be holding

any hearing then!

[MadMaddie]

14. Could it be for the shitty trailers that they had built by an

unqualified company which was not located in LA? A small company that specilized in trailers located in the Gulf was turned down....

[Maddy McCall]

15. I'm more worried about the billions missing in Iraq than I am....

the few millions improperly distributed in Louisiana and Mississippi.

FEMA can blame no one but FEMA for the bedlam that followed Katrina.