The federal government's mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe is only the latest bungling in a national disaster response system that for years has been fraught with waste and fraud.
A South Florida Sun-Sentinel investigation has found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency in five years poured at least $330 million into communities that were spared the devastating effects of fires, hurricanes, floods and tornadoes.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
FEMA's Fraud and Waste
FEMA's fiasco in New Orleans is nothing new to the agency under this administration. The South Florida Sun Sentinel has published a noteworthy investigative report into the fraud and waste at the agency before Hurricane Katrina. Here are the lead paragraphs from one of the stories in the report:
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