Storm Donations Found at Official's Home

Drudge Report ^ | 9-22-05 | Associated Press

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Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday.

[stan_sipple]

Must be a wealthy Republican

[martin_fierro]

Storm Donations Found at Official's Home

Thu Sep 22, 7:25 AM ET

BATON ROUGE, La. - Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday.

Officers searched Cedric Floyd's home because of complaints that city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane victims. Floyd, who runs the day-to-day operations in the suburb of Kenner, was in charge of distributing the goods.

Police plan to seek a charge of committing an illegal act as a public official against Floyd, and more charges against other city workers are possible, police Capt. Steve Caraway said.

The donations filled a large pickup truck four times. "It was an awful lot of stuff," Caraway said.

The donated materials must be processed as evidence but eventually will be distributed to victims. "We have lots of families that are begging for these supplies," said Attorney General Charles Foti, whose office assisted in the investigation.

Attempts to reach Floyd were unsuccessful at home numbers listed under his name in Kenner. His office number went unanswered after business hours.

Philip Ramon, chief of staff to Kenner Mayor Philip Capitano, has said city officials were investigating the alleged pilfering but added that many employees were themselves hurricane victims.

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[nikos1121]

"Must be a wealthy Republican."

Hmmmmm. I think you have the political party wrong. Also, you failed to mention that he works for the mayor.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

uh oh. That doesn't seem right:)

[martin_fierro]

Kenner CAO Cedric Floyd (right) and Chief of Staff Phil Ramon defended administration credit card expenses

[day10]

There seems to be no mention at all of party affiliation. Odd. /sarc

[cwb]

I saw this reported on CNN two nights ago. The white police chief was accusing the black town manager (Floyd) of racism for not helping the hispanic community in the town. CNN noted that Floyd was under investigation for stealing and hoarding rescue supplies, with many just sitting in the back of a big turck. I was wondering when this story would show up.

[rineaux]

Attempts to reach Floyd were unsuccessful at home numbers listed under his name in Kenner. His office number went unanswered after business hours.

Thats because he fled to Houston to get his 2000.00 Fema card.

[Bon mots]

Democrats. Black ones too. Expect this to be quickly swept under the rug.

[stan_sipple]

Like the Congressman, sending a truck full of soldiers and a helicopter to his house to pickup personal items?

[lilylangtree]

Fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayers money.

[jonascord]

Shoot the SOB, in front of the assembled masses. ANY public official who gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar should be shot, without appeal, in front of city hall, and his body left for the crows to eat. Every time some ward healer comes to work, the smell will thereafter remind him of the wages of sin. Either we get a more honest set of public officials, or a smarter bunch of crooks.

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Just another example of an evil white money grubbing no good republican pig dog - hand selected by President Bush no doubt!

[newzjunkey]

I'm simply stunning there's been corruption! (sarcasm)

[Right Wing Assault]

It's easy to determine the party of suspect in a story. If he is a Republican, his name will be "Republican Cedric Floyd". If he is a Dem, his name will be "Cedric Floyd".

[oyez]

Floyd will contend that he was setting up his own mission of aid service. He just hadn't had a chance to get it mobilized.

[stan_sipple]

dont need the "katrina commission" to bother with this do we

[StonyBurk]

Neal Boortz just talked about this said "of course it
wasn't this official who stole all that. ..while he off
serving the people George W.Bush had somebody steal all that stuff and put it in the garage just to implicate him." Sad truth is there are too many who will never implicate Cedric because he is black -and a good boy on the
DNC plantation.

[BTHOtu]

If Friends of Blanco, Nagin, et al were to go after 0.001% of the $200,000,000,000 in "aid", they will each be pocketing $2 Million! This is going to be the biggest boondoggle, kick-back, pay-back, vote-buying scheme ever.