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“Corruption Cases Spike in New Orleans.”
Of couse, it’s the chocoloate city. What else could a sane person expect?
Posted by at 5:55 PM on October 5
How much worse has it gotten in a city well known for its corruption? I would think a spike would barely be detected!
Posted by GetBackJack at 6:04 PM on October 5
Could the increase in corruption have anything to do with the combination of a black city government and a lot of federal hand out money? Just a thought.
Posted by at 8:04 PM on October 5
Follow the money is the operative axiom here. Big Federal post Katrina relief dollars flowing from Washington to local “Chocolate City” “administrators” is a sure fire recipe for what we are seeing.
Posted by Flaxen-headed Strumpet at 8:08 PM on October 5
This is nothing new, I am shocked its even being investigated, all across America there is such a culture of corruption attached to these government programs, just the amount of funds lost to fraud throughout these programs would more than fund the war on terror.
Posted by abc at 4:09 AM on October 6
Free Federal Government hand-outs to the ruling members of New Orleans! They wouldn’t be corrupt with money, would they? Those fine upstanding members of the community!
Posted by Trent Webb at 5:09 AM on October 6
N.O. is on it’s last legs. It’s an African Nation similar to Zem-bah-wee’ whereas the Blacks have ran ‘whitie’ out and now Blacks must try and make all the decisions. It’s ‘a laugh a minute’ to watch the judgement calls carried out by these pre/post Convicts pretending to be intelligent. When all wisdom has left the area, all that’s left is instinct and the ‘me first’ syndrome. Nagin is first and all others are left to snatch up the curmbs.
Detroit South just ‘shut yo mouth’ and call in a load of dirt. It’s over!
Posted by Thumper at 8:05 AM on October 6
You can’t put a band-aid on cancer.
After Katrina and the media’s spin to average Joe American,
Bush/Congress should have appointed a “Katrina Czar” to oversee the operation and dispersal of funding to those affected by the storm. The Corp of Engineers should have/be reprimanded for negligence and profiteering.
But as for the “woe is me” tone of the city of N.O., you raped and pillaged while the flooding occured, there is not a lot of interest in rewarding people for that.
As a side note: The Mississippi Gulf Coast was battered by Katrina. The city of New Orleans just happens to be built below sea level and behind a levee. You take your chances with mother nature sometimes. Sometimes, you are just live stupid.
Posted by Surfer Sam at 11:58 AM on October 6
“Where are all the Prosecutors at???” Oh they too are on the take!
Pull the FED funding, cordon off the city and have Nagin swim in his “Hot Chocolate” until every dime is accounted for by an independent accounting firm. SOOOO….harsh you think.
Why?….I am held to those very standards in my business accounting practices……! So be it!
Posted by JoeMama in FL at 12:44 PM on October 6
Looks like New Orleans is just about ready to become the Detroit of the south. Or is Detroit the New Orleans of the north?
Posted by at 1:57 PM on October 6
As of September 2007, 114 billion dollars of taxpayers money has been spent on Katrina.
Think what about that figure.
Posted by at 3:31 PM on October 6
The unspoken motto of blacks is ‘I got mine’. Most are bidding their time until the payoff. Once it comes, they could care less about anyone else; ‘Movin’ on up!’ and all that. It’s part of the endemic pathology.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 10:17 PM on October 6
Katrina must have hit other areas too besides N.O. What about the gulf coast of Mississippi and Louisiana? You never hear anything about these areas; about how the people there fared and are making out. Did they get back on their feet? Is the media silence because the areas are white? Are they White? Maybe AmRen could do a story about Katrina’s OTHER ignored (non-N.O.) victims.
Posted by at 11:42 PM on October 6
>>>Schwartz said most of the indicted were public officials, including police officers, city councilmen and a former school board president.
Honestly, this is only to be expected. After all, the indicted are probably BLACK (Afro-Americans0. Remember the WalMart looting episode in the aftermath of Katrina. Yeah, they were just foraging for food and clean clothes. There is a lot of nourishment to be found in stolen guns, ammo and high-value electronics like plasma TVs, right? And why not steal EXPENSIVE clothes if you have nothing clean to wear?
Then again, there was that incident of 28 Cadillacs — “borrowed” by members of the N.O. Police Dept. — just to patrol those waterlooged, debris-strewn streets. I mean why STEAL SOMETHING PRACICAL — like trucks? You’re gonna steal, man, steal Cadillacs.
Most likely, this little scandal was probably instigated by the honorable mayor, Ray Nagin. I wouldn’t be surprised if the stolen Cadillacs were stolen from a dealership owned by a friend or crony of Ragin. With costly insurance claims submitted afterwards, by the dealership.
Then again, there’s that Louisiana Congressman, the “honorable” Mr. Jeffords. Indited for taking bribes, caught red-handed with a freezer full of (dare I say it) — COLD CASH!
Seems just about EVERY Black elected to public office, in a leadership position for his fellow Blacks — invariably turns out to be a crook. Right now we have Barak Obama making a run for the presidency. (If he can win the nod of the democratic party.) Would anyone care to guess how soon those inevitable scandals of theft, corruption in high places would start, should Obama actually win the presidency?
Blacks are to crime, theft, corruption and vice like cold is to icde. Simply inseparable. Right now EUROPE is being overrun by Blacks from Africa. Predictably, crime and social problems accompany them. Any questions?
Posted by F at 9:52 AM on October 7
Thank you Jim Letten! This FBI investigator is taking them down, one by one.
For the poster who says we need a “Recovery Czar”- the Feds thought so, too. They let Nagin appoint another Nagin crony.
As to all this money supposedly coming in- I wonder where it goes? I don’t see it. All I see is homeowners and business owners (mostly white) doing it all on their own, using their savings and retirement, and what little insurance settlements they got.
Posted by at 10:30 AM on October 7
Anonymous who asked about the MS Gulf Coast Katrina Victims:
Here is something that will answer your question:
http://stlcofcc.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/katrinas-schools/
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 12:33 PM on October 7
Maybe Tim Wise can tell us where there is a high density black population where there is not a severe crime violence and corruption problem.
Posted by Robert at 2:53 PM on October 7
Here’s the thing - I’m suprised. $60 billion for K. That is more than enough to go around for everybody. And now they’re suing each other? Oh come on. Here’s my take - I guess the lawyers didn’t feel they got enough.
Posted by ed at 4:56 PM on October 7
As of September 2007, 114 billion dollars of taxpayers money has been spent on Katrina.
Think what about that figure.
Posted by at 3:31 PM on October 6
Truly staggering indeed! It is mere monopoly money for our federal Leviathan who continuously bankrolls debt (as though no accounting for tomorrow) who in cahoots with the fraudulent Federal Reserve System manufactures counterfeit money to “inject” into our engineered failing economy.
As an individual who moved from the Mississippi coastal area following Katrina, the contrast between the two states in the immediate aftermath and subsequently is compelling. For one, Gov. Barbour let it be known immediately that “looters would be shot.” There was little to NO looting.
For anyone interested in a fantastic accounting of Louisiana prior to and after Katrina, I highly recommend Tulane historian Doug Brinkley’s “The Great Deluge.” It gives an honest (though he is like virtually all professors a liberal) appraisal of the pre and post Katrina Louisianna. There are also a few noteworthy contrasts between Mississippi’s and Louisianna’s handling of the greatest natural disaster to ever hit the U.S.
Posted by Voir Dire at 9:31 PM on October 8
Blogmeister:
Thanks for that link. When we moved to Pass Christian, MS four years ago, I was surprised to find the exemplary private Catholic school, St. Stanislaus Preparatory College - home to students from over forty countries who board there as well, on the beautiful, oceanfront in Bay St. Louis. It had been destroyed decades earlier by Camille, and again by Katrina. Our son attended and graduated from that fine school after two years, and it has since been rebuilt yet again. We were truly impressed with the quality education our son was blessed to have received there (acquired an almost full scholarship to the U of Miami.)
Posted by Voir Dire at 6:52 PM on October 9
