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  • Hurricane Season Heats Up, Belatedly
    A slow-to-start hurricane season could finally get its first named storm before the end of the week.
  • Indianapolis Man Sentenced to 57 Months for Hurricane Katrina Fraud
    immy Alexander, 38, Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 by U.S. District Chief Judge David F. Hamilton following his guilty plea to conspiracy to steal public money, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. This case was the result of an 18-month investigation by the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • United Nations Investigates New Orleans' Housing Crisis
    United Nations advisors will arrive in New Orleans next week to investigate the forced eviction of thousands of residents as part of the city’s ongoing post-Hurricane Katrina redevelopment. The investigation will be the UN’s third visit to New Orleans in the past three years, demonstrating its continuing concerns about the approach the city is taking toward housing and redevelopment.
  • Homeland Security declares FEMA failed Katrina victims!
    Homeland Security report reveals the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) failed hurricane victims by providing toxic temporary housing. Louisiana tort lawyers experienced in personal injury claims may have evidence to help victims exposed to formaldehyde in FEMA trailers.
  • Chertoff's Sweetheart Deal For Israeli-Owned Carnival Cruise Cruise Line
    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, through a hastily arranged deal with Carnival Cruise Lines, $236 million from U.S. taxpayers will flow to a tax exempt Israeli-founded corporation registered in Panama.
  • Still lots of problems with disaster response
    As the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina nears, four new reports by Congress' investigative arm found problems with the federal government's handling of the storm's aftermath.
  • 'Zeitoun': After the hurricane, the real hell begins
    Abdulrahman Zeitoun is a Syrian immigrant who was living in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated that city. With his wife, Kathy, he had built a widely respected painting and contracting business and owned several rental properties. Sadly, the destruction of his home and livelihood was just the beginning of what would be a grotesque and awful ordeal. In Zeitoun, based on hours of interviews and other research, Dave Eggers tells the man's tragic story and puts a human face on what may be the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
  • Video Shows Confession Of Post-Katrina Vigilante: Man Admits Shooting Looters In Algiers Point
    The WDSU I-Team has obtained exclusive new video and information on the men who claim to have set up vigilante patrols in Algiers Point in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
  • Hurricane Trailers Problem for Federal Government
    (July 12, 2009) - The federal government could end up repeating mistakes made in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita if it fails to craft a better plan to house victims of such catastrophes and future similar catastrophes, a federal official warned recently.
  • A Warning About Disaster Housing
    U.S. authorities remain unable to provide emergency housing after large-scale catastrophes and must do more to prepare survivors of such disasters for permanent relocation, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general is expected to tell a House panel today.