I got my 'beads' in NO. Next question.!
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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I just finished reading the whole article. The LA corruption is even worse than I thought....literaly a bed of thieves.
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Great find.
Oh, now, Governor Blank-O says its time to move on (.org). The blame game is over. Can't we all just get along?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486438/posts
Money that Congress set aside for New Orleans evacuation plan went instead to studying bridge
AP ^ | 9/17/05 | RITA BEAMISH
Posted on 09/17/2005 10:35:29 AM PDT by THEUPMAN
RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer
As far back as eight years ago, Congress ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a plan for evacuating New Orleans during a massive hurricane, but the money instead went to studying the causeway bridge that spans the city's Lake Ponchartrain, officials say.
The outcome provides one more example of the government's failure to prepare for a massive but foreseeable catastrophe, said the lawmaker who helped secure the money for FEMA to develop the evacuation plan.
"They never used it for the intended purpose," said former Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La. "The whole intent was to give them resources so they could plan an evacuation of New Orleans that anticipated that a very large number of people would never leave."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486438/posts
Never mind blame, I just want accountability. Especially if you're going to ask me for my tax dollars to rebuild a city that's better off left off the map.
I want to know that when and if that gets done, that's it's done right, and that'll survive a theorhetical Category 72 hurricane (which would probably be about nuclear-blast-strength) and I won't have be bombared with stupid e-mails asking me to save drowning cats.
For $200 billion they'd better know who was responsible for the last $60 mil, where it went, what they did with it and how to avoid the same mistakes.
That's why they wanted to move it to an "independent" group - of their own choosing, of course.
I got my 'beads' in NO. Next question.!
Oh, I agree, but now that the media blitz of the left is past, and the facts are coming out, Blank-O and her cronies are calling it a "blame game" rather than an effort to seek out accountability. The chips are starting to fall in their rightful place, and the media and democrats will again end up with a great deal of mud on their face.
I was frustrated that this kind of information wasn't coming out right away, but I had forgotten how well Bush plays the media.
Amazing how George Bush is allowing himself to be used as Blanko's and Nagin's b!tch.. by providing TO THEM even more money to be laundered.. 60 million is dwarfed by 200 billion.. And if 200 billion is projected.. at least double THAT.. You know... cost overruns, like in building fighter jets.. like that..
The shell game is afoote.. All pure entertainment to sheeple chewing their cuds..
If, the democrat god didnt want them sheared SHE wouldnt have made them sheeple..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485237/posts
Inspector General will monitor funding of flood relief.. It won't just be turned over to the state.
" I have a strong feeling the Dems are NOT going to be happy about the investigation they are demanding"
Probably exactly why the Dems are demanding a "9/11 style commission" and are staunchly against the President's preference for Congress to handle it.
It *was* after all GW that originally said that now is not the time to point fingers but "there will be an investigation"...!
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You were right then............you're right now.
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Different sides of the same coin, don't ya think?
Hey, I'll chip in.
You can blame anyone you want, but until you have facts that indicate a certain action or misdeed you cannot have accountability.
Once the facts start to come out, like with this article, then there will be accountability.
Perhaps I'm playing a game of semantics, I guess.
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