This is unspeakably outrageous, but sadly not surprising in the most corrupt State in the Union.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday.
Officers searched Cedric Floyd's home because of complaints that city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane victims. Floyd, who runs the day-to-day operations in the suburb of Kenner, was in charge of distributing the goods.
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The donations filled a large pickup truck four times. "It was an awful lot of stuff..."
more charges against other city workers are possible....
Read it here.
Floyd's biography notes that before being appointed to his present position he consulted on political redistricting. Figures [read it here]
UPDATE:
CNN last night reported that there was extensive looting by New Orleans Police Officers -- when queried about it the Police Chief shut off all discussion and his deputy later said that the reports were based on misinterpretation. It looks like they're stonewalling.
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