FEMA fraud paid for football, vacations, erotica
Up to $1.4 billion doled out in bogus assistance to Katrina, Rita victims
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, getting 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 all were able to wrongly get taxpayer help, according to evidence that gives a new black eye to the nation’s disaster relief agency.
Federal investigators even informed Congress that one man apparently used FEMA assistance money for a sex change operation.
This is truly a painfully hilarious read. It is indicative of the level of bureaucracy we have in place. Meh, it is only $1.4 billion dollars...it is only equivalent to 2.5% of the education Budget for 2006.
Read the whole thing here.
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