Indeed, there was fraud discovered in connection with Katrina and the FEMA division of Homeland Security, but more alarming are the many arrests made of employees working for the government. Among the claims:
· FEMA inspector accused of soliciting and accepting bribes in connection with kickbacks on over-inflated FEMA claims.
· FEMA temporary employee in NYC facilitated $1,000,000 fraud via submission and approval of false claims for financial assistance to FEMA after the attacks on the World Trade Centers on 9-11-01. The investigation led to the indictment of 8 persons on 52 counts.
· Former prison captain guilty of civil rights violation and witness tampering, convicted of 3 counts of witness tampering and the beating of an immigrant detainee.
· ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) special agent convicted of workers' compensation fraud of over $239,000 while working for another company and failing to report the income.
· An Immigration Enforcement agent indicted for harboring a fugitive.
· ICE special agent charged and arrested for exposing himself to a female juvenile in a shopping mall. The agent was given one year's supervised probation and resigned but was not fired.
· Death of ICE detainee: An internal investigation determined that the death of a detainee while in custody was a suicide, but that ICE procedures for handling a suicidal detainee were not followed. Cause of death not stated.
· ICE agent pleaded guilty to bribery.
· ICE facility investigated in another detainee death; another internal investigation determined that neither ICE nor the detention facility was negligent. A Cuban national alien, while detained by ICE at a contract facility operated by "Corrections Corporation of America," died while in custody. Cause of death not stated.
· Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and selling identity documents; also assisted in drug smuggling by guaranteeing safe passage of 2 kilos of cocaine.
· Border Patrol agent guilty of illegal possession of a machine gun and other unregistered firearms.
· ICE agent arressted for online solicitation of a minor.
· Customs and Border Protection officer arrested for bribery and alien smuggling. One of the smugglers gave the officer a Lexus SUV, and the officer also had numerous unexplained deposits in his bank account.
· Border Patrol agent arrested for aggravated sexual assault: While off-duty, the agent took a female (age not stated) to his apartment and administered an unknown drug, rendering the female unable to resist his advances.
· One Border Patrol agent determined to be an illegal alien was further charged with illegal possession of firearms and for his role in smuggling 99 illegal aliens into the country.
· Two Border Patrol agents had been working with an alien smuggling organization since 2003 and were determined to have received an amount estimated at $900,000. More on the story.
3 comments:
The perfect crime. Homeland Security stole one billion dollars and got away with it. One person stole 900,000 dollars and other followed. What we have here is a fraud Homeland Security with no oversight. Steal what you want and get away with it. But don't let that man steal a loaf of bread for his starving kids because he will go to jail for 20 years. Just think of what one billion dollars could have done for the people of the Gulf Coast. Yet it's all in a days work with the Bush Administration. Even Brownie was paid after he was fired now that's a great job.
Yes Jackie you are right, no one can be trusted. With what is going on in this country you wonder why people want to get in.
You have a point, Jackie. And we, as taxpayers, are flipped the bill because of DHS' greed.. That money could have been great used to restore those states that were hit in Hurricane Kartina and the Katrina victims.
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