NEWS: La Official Hoards Storm Donations

Cases of food, clothing tools were found in the home of an official in charge of distributing the donations. Police have been receiving reports that city officials were hording the supplies. After receiving a tip, police searched the home of Cedric Floyd who is in-charge of day-to-day operations in Kenner



Echos of the Oilf for Food Scandal that has hit the UN so harshly has now been repeated here in the US. What bothers me is that Floyd has not been arrested yet and the police are only seeking charges against the man.
If this crime had been commited by another than a city official, they would have been arrested on the spot.

Just goes to show you that what a number of people have been saying about the corruption in NOLA and LA is true. I think you jump to an unwarranted conclusion in your closing statement. We don't know how an ordinary citizen would have been treated? I voted up on this one anyway.


[edit on 22-9-2005 by Astronomer68]

That's usually the outcome when you throw money and donations at a corrupted government such as in New Orleans.

Keyword here is kleptocracy...

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