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:
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.


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