Posted on 12/04/2007 11:34:56 AM PST by jdm
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration now acknowledges it is trying to recover nearly $500 million from people who improperly received federal aid money intended to help victims of two deadly hurricanes, Katrina and Rita, along the Gulf Coast two years ago. It said the amount may increase further.
"This is a moving target and not finite," said James McIntyre, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The government's newest estimate of improper aid represents $494 million FEMA paid to 134,000 people who were ineligible for the aid they received. More than half the money went to people who couldn't prove residency, according to FEMA figures. Overpayments and duplicate payments account for most of the remainder.
The amount had exceeded $500 million, but the agency wrote off nearly $27 million because of appeals or hardship waivers. The $500 million figure would represent nearly $1 of every $10 in government aid intended to help storm victims.
Congressional investigators determined people provided false addresses, other people's social security numbers and Gulf Coast addresses that did not exist. Because of the chaotic situation and loose controls, nearly half the 11,000 people who received emergency debit cards also received FEMA checks, investigators said.
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From Louisiana? Good luck with that..............
Obviously this is the Bush Administrations plan to scare blacks away from returning to New Orleans.
No media bias there, eh?
What, is that about 1% of total funding for Katrina?
Probably not even that.
Right, especially when you consider that Democrats and the media were shrieking about FEMA and Bush’s failure to provide immediate compensation. But Dems and the Drive-bys are completely blameless in this, yessir, they sure are....
The Bush administration now acknowledges........
that the billions of dollars poured into that rathole run by Democrats for the last hunnert years was a complete and total waste........
Proper recovery of these stolen monies would require any number of politically incorrect measures, including some form of ...gasp...racial profiling.
Never gonna happen. Compassionate conservative George Bush will never want to go there.
Kiss that cash goodbye.
Time to search some more freezers...
It’ll be easier to find Osama bin Laden than finding that money..........
Yeah right.
They need to go after the companies that won the contracts after Katrina.
First on the List is Shaw who charged the Government $5000.00 to $10,000 to place blue tarps on roofs after the storm.
For example, at my house in New Orleans Shaw charged the government $7,500.00 to place a Blue Tarp on my roof. It took the crew less than two hours to complete the job.
Two months after the storm I had the entire roof replaced with 30 year shingles for $3,750.00.
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The $500 million figure would represent nearly $1 of every $10 in government aid intended to help storm victims.
Only 10% was wasted? I am sure it will go much higher.
He should never have let the media bully him into a big dumb blank check bailout in the first place.
How do you retrieve $500 million spent on tattoos and malt liquor?
Why don’t they just call up the CYA and let them finish their scheduled drug deliveries to every street corner in USA.
http://www.madcowprod.com/11282007.html
That’s a lotta toot we could be sellin’ to our kids. Think of the profits.
LOL
You have more chance getting the beer back for looter man.
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