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- Home, business foreclosures suspended due to flooding in Missouri
- The flooding of northeast Missouri and parts of St. Charles County has had a surprising effect on foreclosures: they've decreased. Since the flooding, FEMA has begun declaring parts of Missouri disaster areas. Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt followed suit and also named additional counties disaster areas. In response,...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Home, business foreclosures suspended due to flooding
- The flooding of northeast Missouri and parts of St. Charles County has had a surprising effect on foreclosures: they've decreased. Since the flooding, FEMA has begun declaring parts of Missouri disaster areas. Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt followed suit and also named additional counties disaster areas. In response,...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Flooding delays hundreds of foreclosures in Missouri
- The flooding of northeast Missouri and parts of St. Charles County has had a surprising effect on foreclosures: they've decreased. Since the flooding, FEMA has begun declaring parts of Missouri disaster areas. Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt followed suit and also named additional counties disaster areas. In response,...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Coachmen Industries Receives Congressional Inquiry
- ELKHART, Ind. -- Coachmen Industries, Inc. (NYSE: COA) today announced that it has received an inquiry from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the United States House of Representatives as part of the Committee's investigation into the levels of formaldehyde in travel trailers and other forms of temporary...
- Research articles 2008-02-21
- Manufacturers of Toxic Hurricane Relief Trailers Should Be Investigated, According to Legal Team for Displaced Gulf Coast Citizens
- To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS Contact: Attorneys, Tony Buzbee of the Buzbee Law Firm, 1-800- 992-5393; or Raul Bencomo of Bencomo & Associates, +1-504-529-2929; or Media, Erin Powers of Powers MediaWorks LLC, +1-281-362-1411, or +1-281-703-6000, for The Buzbee Law Firm and Bencomo & Associates NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --...
- Research articles 2008-02-14
- N.O. woman sentenced for Katrina fraud
- U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey has sentenced a New Orleans woman to five years of probation for making a false claim for Hurricane Katrina aid, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office said. Roshondra Celious, 27, received the sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty to the federal felony, Letten said. ...
- Research articles 2007-11-28
- Road Home calculations reach $9B
- Nearly $9 billion has been obligated by The Road Home process to the first 137,385 claims. This far exceeds the $7.3 billion now allocated for the program although negotiations are ongoing for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover the shortfall it created in underestimating the number of applications. ...
- Research articles 2007-10-31
- Katrina fraud swamps system
- Federal agents investigating widespread fraud after the Gulf Coast hurricanes in 2005 are sifting through more than 11,000 potential cases, a backlog that could take years to resolve. Authorities have fielded so many reports of people cheating aid programs, swindling contracts and scamming charities after the...
- Research articles 2007-07-06
- Task force on guard for fraud
- By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL State and federal officials are required to follow guidelines for doling out the millions of taxpayer dollars that have become available for the reconstruction of tornado-stricken Greensburg. To prevent fraud, a newly formed Greensburg Fraud Task Force will investigate...
- Research articles 2007-05-27
- Task force on guard for fraud
- By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL State and federal officials are required to follow guidelines for doling out the millions of taxpayer dollars that have become available for the reconstruction of tornado-stricken Greensburg. To prevent fraud, a newly formed Greensburg Fraud Task Force will investigate...
- Research articles 2007-05-27
- Two Plead Guilty to Hurricane Katrina Fraud
- To: URBAN AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: Gina Balaya, of the Office of U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy, Eastern District of Michigan, +1-313-226-9758 DETROIT, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two residents of Bloomington, Ind., plead guilty today to one count of mail fraud in connection to false claims they made to the Federal Emergency...
- Research articles 2007-03-08
- Gulfport Woman Found Guilty of Katrina Fraud
- To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: Sheila Wilbanks of the Office of U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, Southern District of Mississippi, +1-601-965-4480 GULFPORT, Miss., March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rose M. Crosby, of Gulfport, Miss. was found guilty in U.S. District Court on Tuesday of five counts of fraud against the Federal Emergency Management...
- Research articles 2007-03-07
- FEMA seeking millions it was bilked in Katrina aid
- NEW ORLEANS -- In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time. Now the government wants back a lot of its money. ...
- Research articles 2007-02-07
- Mississippi Man Sentenced for Katrina Fraud
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Sheila Wilbanks of the U.S. Department of Justice, +1- 601-965-4480 GULFPORT, Miss., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert A. Martin of Gulfport, Miss., was sentenced to serve four months in prison and ordered to pay $2,358 in restitution to the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA for submitting a...
- Research articles 2007-02-06
- Alabama Woman Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Prison for Katrina Fraud
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Charlie McNichol of the U.S. Department of Justice, +1- 251-415-7131 MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lawanda T. Williams, also known as Lawanda Johnson, was sentenced today to more than six years in prison for defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA of more than $267,000 and...
- Research articles 2007-01-24
- Harrison County Resident Arrested For Hurricane Katrina Fraud
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Sheila Wilbanks of the U.S. Department of Justice, +1- 601-965-4480 JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Paul Ladner, of Pass Christian, Miss., waived arraignment today on charges of making false statements to Federal Emergency Management Agency for Hurricane Katrina disaster assistance funds, as well as wire fraud,...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- Katrina victims' housing payments must continue, judge rules
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA must continue to pay housing costs for thousands of Katrina victims who had been dropped from the agency's aid program. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., ruled FEMA mishandled the transition from a short-term housing program to a longer-term program that...
- Research articles 2006-12-18
- Belleville, Ill. Woman Pleads Guilty to Hurricane Katrina Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft and Public Benefit Frauds
- To: National DeskContact: Randy Massey of the U.S. Department of Justice Southern District of Illinois, 618-628-3700FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill., Oct. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Tina Marie Winston, a.k.a. Tina Marie Gilmore, 34, of Belleville, Ill., today entered a plea of guilty to four counts of mail fraud, three counts of making...
- Research articles 2006-10-06
- Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the Hurricane Katrina One-Year Anniversary Symposium in New Orleans
- NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following are prepared remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the hurricane Katrina one-year anniversary symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana: Good afternoon. It's good to be back in New Orleans. I was here a few weeks ago to talk with many of...
- Research articles 2006-09-13
- Four More People Plead Guilty to Katrina Fraud
- JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Four individuals have entered guilty pleas in U. S. District Court for Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA fraud in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, announced U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, of the Southern District of Mississippi. Marion Griffin, of Morton, Miss, pleaded guilty to...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
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