Could They Be Any More Corrupt?

The Aftermath Report™
Commentary by Dr. T. McGuinness
DeadlyStorms.com & TropicalStorms.us
September 20th, 2005

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Kenner police find relief supplies in city official's home
9/21/2005, 8:28 p.m. CT
The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police found cases of food, clothes and tools
intended for hurricane victims in the backyard, shed and rooms throughout the
home of a chief administrative officer of a New Orleans suburb, officials said
Wednesday.

Police in Kenner searched Cedric Floyd's home Tuesday because of
complaints that city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane
victims. Floyd, who runs the day-to-day operations in Kenner, was in charge of
distributing the donations.

The donations, including lanterns, vacuums and clothes with price
tags attached, had to be removed in four loads in a big pickup truck, Kenner
police Capt. Steve Caraway said.
"It was an awful lot of stuff," he
said.

The donations have to be processed as evidence but eventually will
be distributed to victims, Caraway said.

"We have lots of families that are begging for these supplies,"
said Attorney General Charles Foti, whose office assisted in the investigation
and search.
Philip Ramon, chief of staff to Kenner Mayor Philip Capitano, has
said city officials were investigating the alleged pilfering but added that many
employees were themselves hurricane victims.

Thousands of hurricane-stricken residents of the city a few miles
west of New Orleans lined up each day at a furniture store parking lot to get
clothing, food, household items and tons of other donated supplies.

Caraway said he plans to file a charge of committing an illegal act
as a public official against Floyd, and more charges against other city workers
are possible."

Could this city's government be any lower? They failed misserably to save their citizens - the Director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield himself, had to call the mayor the Saturday night before Katrina struck to get the man to pay attention at all, and even then he waited 15 hours before doing anything!

Now we see the deep seated level of corruption that really exists! And we are supposed to trust these people with billions of reconstruction funds from the Federal government? NO WAY!

Jail the whole city government, then let's talk about reconstruction!

TMc