FEMA funds spent on divorce, sex change
...concluded that up to $1.4 billion — perhaps as much as 16 percent of the billions of dollars in assistance expended after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita — was spent for bogus reasons.
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Among the items purchased with the cards:
_An all-inclusive, one-week Caribbean vacation in the Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic.
_Five season tickets to New Orleans Saints professional football games.
_Adult erotica products in Houston and "Girls Gone Wild" videos in Santa Monica, Calif.
_Dom Perignon champagne and other alcoholic beverages in San Antonio.
"Our forensic audit and investigative work showed that improper and potentially fraudulent payments occurred mainly because FEMA did not validate the identity of the registrant, the physical location of the damaged address, and ownership and occupancy of all registrants at the time of registration," GAO officials said.
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I work in finance at a financing company and I see fraud cases all the time (you wouldn't believe the stories)... I know that there will always be people who take advantage. The sad part about this story for me is that FEMA was stupid enough to have no checks & balances in place. i.e. they sent money to post office boxes, sent money to multiple names at the same addresses, didn't double check addresses of homes that people stated they lived at, didn't cross reference with any databases which allowed people to use prison inmate names and get multiple cheques, etc. So stupid!
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Kathy wrote:I work in finance at a financing company and I see fraud cases all the time (you wouldn't believe the stories)... I know that there will always be people who take advantage. The sad part about this story for me is that FEMA was stupid enough to have no checks & balances in place. i.e. they sent money to post office boxes, sent money to multiple names at the same addresses, didn't double check addresses of homes that people stated they lived at, didn't cross reference with any databases which allowed people to use prison inmate names and get multiple cheques, etc. So stupid!
i live in a cemetary! send me money!
(it worked for some folks)
its a shame heh
go fuck yourself.
Re: Katrina and Rita - Hurricane assistance fraud
Kathy wrote:FEMA funds spent on divorce, sex change
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_Adult erotica products in Houston and "Girls Gone Wild" videos in Santa Monica, Calif.
Well technically "Girls Gone Wild" are filmed in New Orleans... just supporting their industry.
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they should have given out something similar to the lone star card. you can only buy groceries and necessities with that, kind of like food stamps.
Whenever death may surprise us,
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown