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LA Officials Indicted Prior to Katrina
Los Angeles Times ^
| 9/17/05
| Silverstein&Meyer
Posted on 09/17/2005 7:42:34 AM PDT by Wombat101
Louisiana Officials Indicted Before Katrina Hit
Federal audits found dubious expenditures by the state's emergency preparedness agency, which will administer FEMA hurricane aid.
WASHINGTON Senior officials in Louisiana's emergency planning agency already were awaiting trial over allegations stemming from a federal investigation into waste, mismanagement and missing funds when Hurricane Katrina struck. And federal auditors are still trying to track as much as $60 million in unaccounted for funds that were funneled to the state from the Federal Emergency Management Agency dating back to 1998. In March, FEMA demanded that Louisiana repay $30.4 million to the federal government.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; neworleans; thebigsleazy
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To: pointsal
Edwards, last I heard, was in jail...
101
posted on
09/17/2005 8:05:50 PM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Hilltop
Thanks.. I am going to research this on Tuesday... my first free day... what people do not seem to grasp is that Tax dollars are not "government" dollars.. they are owned by the taxpayers... we are the government...
With all the waste.. it is a shame that people do not step up to the pulpit and make a difference...
More later...
102
posted on
09/17/2005 9:27:09 PM PDT
by
Fritzy
To: Carolinamom
I just finished reading the whole article. The LA corruption is even worse than I thought....literaly a bed of thieves.
I think that most people who have never really been exposed to Louisiana, or have only been through in passing (the same ones who think New Orleans = French Quarter), don't realize just how bad it is.
You don't have to look far either - just look at some of the projects that Senator Mary Landrieu has managed to push through Congress, or tried, as well as examine her family going back a few generations.
That's just one example. I've never cared for Louisiana, either when I lived there for a while when I was growing up, or when I was driving through to Alabama or Florida as an adult. The politicians, the cops, etc.
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