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  • FEMA questions Blanco advisers' contract

    12/11/2005 3:57:49 PM PST · by caryatid · 18 replies · 404+ views
    Times Picayune / Capital Bureau ^ | Sunday, December 11, 2005 | Jan Moller
    BATON ROUGE -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is having second thoughts about reimbursing Louisiana for more than $25 million in payments to the consulting firm that has been advising Gov. Kathleen Blanco on hurricane recovery. A week after announcing in a news release that the state Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness could collect up to $26.1 million for the services provided by James Lee Witt Associates, FEMA withdrew the authorization and questioned whether the state acted properly in awarding the contract. In a Dec. 5 letter to Col. Jeff Smith, Blanco's official representative to FEMA, federal officials...