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Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: Ripsnort on June 14, 2006, 01:56:51 PM: :mad: :furious

Probe Finds Bogus Hurricane Aid May Top $1.4 Billion
FEMA Relief Funds Paid for Football Tickets, a Caribbean Vacation and a Divorce Lawyer

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060613200009990001&ncid=NWS00010000000001
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: SirLoin on June 14, 2006, 01:59:19 PM: I hope it was State Farm that got hit by the reverse scam.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: Tarmac on June 14, 2006, 02:13:33 PM: Government handouts distributed and spent improperly? No way!

Learn to swim.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: Maverick on June 14, 2006, 02:20:13 PM: Nope this isn't private insurance companies getting scammed, it's the Federal Govt. getting hit with them. Someone on the ground over there is about to be sacked. Probably several someones.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: indy007 on June 14, 2006, 02:27:13 PM: Well, it's not quite a bad thing...

Yeah, the US gov got scammed... but at least they figured it out for once.
Title: 1 billion to waste
Post by: 1epic1 on June 14, 2006, 02:40:11 PM: heard on the news this mornining that a guy filed to FEMA 18 forms that he needed money cause of the hurricane...truth is he was not affected by the hurricane and he spent the 36,000$ on a sex change...about 1 billion dollars was handed out to people who did not need the money.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: BlueJ1 on June 14, 2006, 02:41:34 PM: Thanks for sharing.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: Mickey1992 on June 14, 2006, 02:46:34 PM: Does no one remember the outcry after the hurrcane when FEMA and the Red Cross were requesting IDs from victims in order to get assistance? Because of this they relaxed the requirements.

I say we should give the government props for circling back now and bringing charges against those that defrauded the system.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: storch on June 14, 2006, 02:48:47 PM: those zany chocolate town people, they are so clever.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: Ripsnort on June 14, 2006, 03:48:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by storch
those zany chocolate town people, they are so clever.
Careful..., there is alot of white, yellow, name-a-color trash in every city.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: john9001 on June 14, 2006, 05:51:26 PM: chocolate town re-elected it's "it's not my fault" mayor
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: storch on June 14, 2006, 05:53:41 PM: who said anything about color?
Title: Re: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: Sandman on June 14, 2006, 06:10:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
:mad: :furious

Probe Finds Bogus Hurricane Aid May Top $1.4 Billion
FEMA Relief Funds Paid for Football Tickets, a Caribbean Vacation and a Divorce Lawyer

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060613200009990001&ncid=NWS00010000000001

Only a billion?

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: rpm on June 14, 2006, 06:24:46 PM: What's worse, 1000's of private citizens bilking money from the taxpayers or 1 company?
(http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/images/halliburton-soda-thumb.jpg)
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: storch on June 14, 2006, 07:12:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by rpm
What's worse, 1000's of private citizens bilking money from the taxpayers or 1 company?
(http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/images/halliburton-soda-thumb.jpg)
is that the price delivered in Iraq? did the case of Soda walk there? during the early '90s I worked with a guy from brasil that was extremely wealthy. he love certain brasilian pastries from a certain bakery in Sao Paulo. once per week he sent an employee down to brasil for the express purpose of having those pastries freshly delivered to his home on Fisher Island. The pastries cost pennies at the bakery but the price was probably elevated a bit at the Miami end.
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: expat on June 15, 2006, 01:38:49 AM: Storch
They make coke in the middle east so i dont think that the transport cost's are that high
Title: U.S.:Your Tax money in N.O. hard at work!
Post by: Shuckins on June 15, 2006, 07:36:18 AM: Is anyone surprised? The state of Louisiana has the most notoriously corrupt local and state government officials in the country.

If the citizens of Louisiana are willing to put up with that type of graft and thievery, why is the federal government naive enough to believe that some of those citizens would not be guilt of the same greed and dishonesty?