Is Anyone Watching The Money? Wash. Post

[Frustratedlady]

Report: U.S. Overpaid $32M in Katrina Evac

By LESLIE MILLER
The Associated Press
Saturday, January 21, 2006; 5:56 AM

WASHINGTON -- A bill for busing evacuees from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was $32 million more than it should have been, and the government paid it without question, the Transportation Department inspector general said Friday.

Landstar Express America was given 570 specific tasks to supply enough vehicles to haul thousands of truckloads of goods and thousands of busloads of people after the hurricane struck.

Rep. Tom Davis,R- Va., left, listens to Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., discuss the impact Hurricane Katrina has had on the Bay St. Louis Area, during a bus tour of the hurricane-ravaged region, Friday, Jan. 20, 2006, near Bay St. Louis, Miss. Davis, who chairs a House panel investigating the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, said his return to the region this week has left him frustrated by the pace of debris removal and rebuilding of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Nicole LaCour Young) (Nicole Lacour Young - AP)
The inspector general's office reviewed six of the tasks that have been paid for by the Federal Aviation Administration, which was the contracting agency.

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The report said the FAA overpaid Landstar for two of those six tasks; for one, the agency paid a $59,082,000 partial payment "with no documentation showing the actual amount of services provided to that date," the report said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012100378.html

[patrice]

1. We can loose all kinds of money in Iraq Contracts; We can loose

all kinds of money in New Orleans Contracts. Hell! We're just MADE of Money!!! Don't you know?????

[Extend a Hand]

2. it seems like

the fed is rolling the presses with the intention of devaluing our currency.