skippy the bush kangaroo

Thursday, September 08, 2005

no wonder nola "holdouts" don't want to leave their homes....

look who fema has working for them.
government inspectors entrusted to enter disaster victims' homes and verify damage claims include criminals with records for embezzlement, drug dealing and robbery, a south florida sun-sentinel investigation has found.

federal officials have pointed to the inspectors as their primary defense against accusations of widespread fraud for their payout of more than $31 million in hurricane frances disaster aid in miami-dade -- a county spared hurricane-force winds.

...the newspaper found 30 inspectors or managers with criminal records out of 133 it was able to identify through confidential sources, news clips, fema applicants and the internet. a case against another inspector, charged in mississippi with the attempted rape of a hurricane ivan victim, is still pending. the count includes those with at least one misdemeanor offense, such as drunken driving, but excludes traffic citations or
infractions.

of the inspectors and supervisors identified as having records, 17 had criminal histories at the time they were hired. at least four lost their jobs for arrests after they were hired, including one scheduled for sentencing may 6 in california for child molestation, and two convicted of federal bribery charges for promising higher fema payments in exchange for money.- sun sentinel

interesting to know that the firm that hired these inspectors, parsons brinckerhoff, also were involved in the strategic petroleum reserve.

hmmmm.....

posted by Cookie Jill at 1:25 PM |

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