FEMA Fraud

The GAO estimates that fraud claims related to FEMA funds for Katrina are close to $1.4 billion, an amount which might actually be understated based on how easy it was for people to get funds.

Prison inmates, including some in Mississippi, 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.

Thank God Sens. Vitter (R-LA) and Landrieu (D-LA) didn't get their wish of using $300 billion in taxpayer funds to rebuild the entire area from the ground up.