TheEnforcer
06-14-2006, 02:32 PM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301367.html
Fraudulent Katrina and Rita Claims Top $1 Billion
FEMA Paid for Vacation In Hawaii, Football Tickets
By Larry Margasak
Associated Press
Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Page A03
The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and was hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and even a divorce lawyer, congressional investigators have found.
Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a home address, and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel were able to wrongly get taxpayer help, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Agents from the investigative arm of Congress went undercover to expose the ease of receiving disaster expense checks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The GAO concluded that as much as 16 percent of the billions of dollars in FEMA aid to individuals after the two hurricanes was unwarranted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301367.html
Fraudulent Katrina and Rita Claims Top $1 Billion
FEMA Paid for Vacation In Hawaii, Football Tickets
By Larry Margasak
Associated Press
Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Page A03
The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and was hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and even a divorce lawyer, congressional investigators have found.
Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a home address, and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel were able to wrongly get taxpayer help, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Agents from the investigative arm of Congress went undercover to expose the ease of receiving disaster expense checks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The GAO concluded that as much as 16 percent of the billions of dollars in FEMA aid to individuals after the two hurricanes was unwarranted.