Katrina and Rita Relief Aid Fraud Allegations Number in the Five Digits July 6, 2007
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USA Today via Michelle Malkin:
Federal agents investigating widespread fraud after the Gulf Coast hurricanes in 2005 are sifting through more than 11,000 potential cases, a backlog that could take years to resolve.
Authorities have fielded so many reports of people cheating aid programs, swindling contracts and scamming charities after the hurricanes that Homeland Security inspectors, who typically police disaster aid scams, have been “swamped,” says David Dugas, the U.S. attorney in Baton Rouge.
Curiously, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Baton Rouge is cited, but not the U.S. Attorney’s office for southern Mississippi. Why there would be so much fraud in southern Louisiana and not southern Mississippi is a mystery.
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