Haley Barbour relative defrauded FEMA after Katrina, judge rules

[kpete]

Source: McClatchy

Haley Barbour relative defrauded FEMA after Katrina, judge rules

By Maria Recio | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Six years after Hurricane Katrina, a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was found by a federal court to have masterminded a massive fraud against the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the inspection of the legendary trailers that housed storm refugees along the Gulf Coast.

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims found last week that Rosemary Barbour's company, Jackson, Miss.,-based Alcatec LLC, had engaged in a fraudulent billing scheme as part of a $100 million, five-year maintenance contract with FEMA.

She was ordered to pay more than $350,000 in penalties and damages. In often colorful language, the judge described the testimony of Rosemary Barbour during an eight-day trial in May in Jackson as "exasperating" and "bumble-headed."

Rosemary Barbour, the company's sole owner, is the wife of the governor's nephew, Charles Barbour, a former Hinds County supervisor who last week lost a Mississippi Senate GOP primary.





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[No Elephants]

2. No wonder they want small government. They don't want anybody around to arrest them.

Bumbleheaded Republican fraud.

That description could apply to almost any of them.

[Mojorabbit]

3. 350,000 penalty after a hundred million profit?

Something is very wrong with this decision.

[24601]

7. It was a claims court and they are limited to the amount in dispute.

The other 99,650,000.00 (99.65%) was billed properly.

She'll get off, however, since she wasn't born in the US...and you know how they go easy on political relatives born elsewhere. Or so I've read somewhere.

[Historic NY]

4. Republicans getting rich the old fashion way, they just steal it.

[Turbineguy]

5. See?

Now if we followed Ron Paul there would be no FEMA to steal from! Problem solved!

On edit: I'd better add one of these: :crazy:

[Kingofalldems]

6. K and R

The Secretary of Labor buys a car legally and some go ballistic. Here's what republicans do.

[bluedigger]

8. If I were the DA...

She'd be getting a perp walk from Haley's dining room on Thanksgiving Day. Media invited.

[ocd liberal]

9. Well, of course

this surprises me? NO!

[onpatrol98]

10. bumble-headed

:rofl:

[bullwinkle428]

11. Of course, the wing-nuts LOVE to paint "those people" (read: African-Americans)

as being the sole perpetrators of fraud against the government! Hell, Ron Paul pulled this shit more than once over the last few days when talking about FEMA!

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

:thumbsup:

[indepat]

13. Wonder how much these politically-connected people stand/stood to make on a

five-year $100 million contract with FEMA. Wonder if the bid was competitively won or awarded to politically-connected people possibly with little no expertise. This is a microcosm of contracting out by the government to politically-connected people. :shrug: :patriot: