If Mayor White is planning to get the feds to pony up for police, ambulance, and other expenses, he needs to to hurry up before Congress decides the whole thing is just a big waste of time and money. According to two audits, “rife with fraud” does not begin to describe the situation.

The two audits found that up to 900,000 of the 2.5 million applicants who received aid under FEMA’s emergency cash assistance program — which included the $2,000 debit cards given to evacuees — were based on duplicate or invalid Social Security numbers, or false addresses and names.
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That’s over one third of the total. Jumpin’ Jehasophat.