Homeland audit says Katrina contracts were mismanaged (take a bow, FEMA)

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/04/23/homeland_audit_says_katrina_contracts_were_mismanaged/

Homeland audit says Katrina contracts were mismanaged

By Hope Yen, Associated Press | April 23, 2007

WASHINGTON -- FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste, and possibly violated federal law, by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and bad paperwork, investigators say.

The report by the Homeland Security Department's office of inspector general, set to be released later this week, examines the propriety of 36 trailer contracts designated for small and local businesses in the stricken Gulf Coast region after the 2005 storm.

It found a haphazard competitive bidding process in which the winning contract prices were both unreasonably low and high. Moreover, FEMA did not take adequate legal steps to ensure that companies were small and locally operated, resulting in a questionable contract award to a large firm with ties to the Republican Party.

"Based on our analysis, we concluded that FEMA contracting officials exposed the agency to an unacceptable level of risk," according to the report by the office of inspector general Richard Skinner.

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What a worthless senator.

the hearing. :sarcasm:

Government does not work. Put us in charge and we will prove it.

Meanwhile the next hurricane season is a mere 38 days away.

That big business has more say in America than the majority of the people when the repubs are in power. Seems to me that social conservatism is working exactly the way the republican elite want it to. Take away all life benefits from those who can’t afford to get these things themselves, then take 90% of the population and force them into poverty with no chance of ever being able to get out and load the pockets of the top 10% richest in America that do not need government securities.

The repubs seem to be only pro life when it comes to a pile of cells but as soon as someone comes out of the womb they are forgotten and left to miserable lives.

-100 points to conservatives
-1000 points to the ideologs who have more respect for cells than actual life.

:hi:

to put a finer point on it, so to distract from skeletors appalling charade as chief of HLS?

HLS should be retitled, "huge loss of security".

criticizing FEMA. So who's responsible for auditing DHS? :think: