FEMA Funds Spent on Divorce, Sex Change

Posted on Jun 13, 2006

The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Sounds like FEMA did a “heckuva job.”

AP:

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.

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