FEMA Funds Spent on Divorce, Sex Change
The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to supposed victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Sounds like FEMA did a "heckuva job."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.”
Wait, before you go…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.
If you're reading this, you probably already know that non-profit, independent journalism is under threat worldwide. Independent news sites are overshadowed by larger heavily funded mainstream media that inundate us with hype and noise that barely scratch the surface. We believe that our readers deserve to know the full story. Truthdig writers bravely dig beneath the headlines to give you thought-provoking, investigative reporting and analysis that tells you what’s really happening and who’s rolling up their sleeves to do something about it.
Like you, we believe a well-informed public that doesn’t have blind faith in the status quo can help change the world. Your contribution of as little as $5 monthly or $35 annually will make you a groundbreaking member and lays the foundation of our work.
Support Truthdig
There are several key opportunities to expand progressive movements into a powerful force that will overcome the stranglehold of our corporation-controlled political parties.
The rumblings you are hearing from the right are the sounds of an old consensus in the process of disintegrating.
The Republican Party faces a long-term challenge in presidential elections because it is defining itself as a gloomy enclave, a collection of pessimists who fear what our country is becoming and where it is going.
Medics and human rights groups are calling out the Turkish government for intimidation against street protesters as new legislation criminalizes the use of urgent assistance.
It was a bittersweet briefing that told us exactly where the Obama administration finds itself at the dawn of its sixth year.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as the mastermind of 9/11, has released a new manifesto and allegedly come into a new way of thinking and believing.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.