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Hard to disburse emergency post-hurricane supplies, when city officials are hoarding them:
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Police found cases of food, clothes and tools intended for hurricane victims in the backyard, shed and rooms throughout the home of a chief administrative officer of a New Orleans suburb, officials said Wednesday.
Police in Kenner searched Cedric Floyd's home Tuesday because of complaints that city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane victims. Floyd, who runs the day-to-day operations in Kenner, was in charge of distributing the donations.
The donations, including lanterns, vacuums and clothes with price tags attached, had to be removed in four loads in a big pickup truck, Kenner police Capt. Steve Caraway said.
"It was an awful lot of stuff," he said.
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|9.22.05 @ 7:22PM|#
Off with his head!
Of course, we should give him a fair trial with an impartial jury first...
...but then it's off with his head!
Phil|9.22.05 @ 7:39PM|#
Something like this happened last year, too, during the Florida hurricanes; some thrift shop associated with some little fly-by-night church was accused of taking supplies donated to be given away to victims and selling them in their store, at enormously inflated prices. There are all sorts of scumbags around.
|9.22.05 @ 7:51PM|#
Just another kind of looting. Hey, who's gonna miss it? Who's gonna know?
|9.22.05 @ 7:59PM|#
We know now, at least in this case. Here's hoping they presecute with extreme prejudice.
From the article: "Philip Ramon, chief of staff to Kenner Mayor Philip Capitano, has said city officials were investigating the alleged pilfering but added that many employees were themselves hurricane victims."
I certainly hope a bunch of people aren't going to get away with using this as an excuse for their theft. With very few exceptions, city officials should be going through the same channels everyone else has to for their relief.
|9.22.05 @ 9:12PM|#
Awful, true...but how is this any different than government not having a clue where the billions for the war on terror are?
|9.23.05 @ 2:11AM|#
Well, somebody has to steal this stuff. When the gubment plunks down 60 billion dollars without much thought there is bound to be a little slippage.
|9.23.05 @ 2:19AM|#
Dave, Dave, Dave,... Your lack of confidence in gub'ment is quite discouraging. Don't ya know? They�re like, totaly in it for you man, I mean like, why ya trippin' dude. You wanna be some kinda anarchist man? The gub'ment is like, doing their work for you man, and their like, totaly good at it and stuff. No Seriously, it works man. Without the gub'ment you�re like, nothin' man.
Ya get it?
David Rollins|9.23.05 @ 7:09AM|#
NPR has just released the pre-hurricane conference calls with FEMA, which were secretly recorded by Walter Maestri. My first thought when hearing this was that it was a major scoop; I expected to find it on the homepage of the NYT, but it's not even on nola.com. Hopefully it will come out in the congressional investigation, or bubble up to the top of the news once Rita passes.
That guy Maestri has some balls -- this is either a bold gamble to discredit Blanco, Nagin, et al in hopes of getting reelected, or a career limiting move born out of desperation.
|9.23.05 @ 11:04AM|#
Finding a crooked government official in Louisiana is like finding an Erasure fan at a bathhouse. Not hard to do buddy.