More from the FEMA "You're doin' a heckuva job" collection of bedtime stories

i would just love to think that this was an isolated case but i know it's not... when you have officials at the highest levels of government funneling billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars to crony-linked private corporations in no-bid contracts, why should the low-level weenies behave any differently...? unfortunately, they're the ones who get caught... they're also the ones who will have the hardest time picking themselves up after they fall...

[T]wo FEMA officials working in New Orleans- Andrew Rose and Loyd Hollman-both of Colorado, were arrested by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and DHS Inspector General's Office this morning for soliciting bribes as public officials.

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according to the affidavit in support of the complaint filed by FBI Special Agents, Rose and Hollman were arrested on January 27, 2006 at the FEMA base camp in New Orleans after taking two (2) envelopes containing $10,000 each as illegal bribe payments.

According to the complaint, the investigation began on December 22, 2005, when Rose and Hollman approached a local contractor and solicited a bribe from the contractor in exchange for inflating the headcount for a $1 million meal service contract at the Algiers, Louisiana base camp. During this meeting, Rose and Hollman allegedly told the contractor that they could inflate the "headcount" for meals served and would require the contractor to kickback to them (Rose and Hollman) $20,000.

During a subsequent meeting on January 19, 2006, Rose demanded $20,000 from the contractor to be split evenly between him (Rose) and Hollman; and indicated that Hollman would continue to intentionally inflate the occupancy number at the base camp falsely.

During a following meeting on January 24, 2006, the $20,000 bribe which had been demanded was further discussed, and during the same meeting, Rose and Hollman allegedly discussed various ways and means which the contractor could use to inflate the meal service count. During the same meeting and a subsequent one on the same day, both charged defendants allegedly continued to discuss various ways and means to inflate the invoices for meal service counts, and made a further bribery demand for $2,500 per week for each of them.

Finally, on the morning of their arrest at the base camp, Rose and Hollman each allegedly took one envelope containing $10,000 from the contractor after confirming that these two payments were for the inflated meal service count from December 3, 2005 through January 15, 2006.

write to dick cheney, guys... maybe he can put in a good word on your behalf...

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