FBI Investigates FEMA Flood Map Changes After NBC News Report"

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FBI Investigates FEMA Flood Map Changes After NBC News Report

By Bill Dedman at NBC News

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/fbi-investigates-fema-flood-map-changes-after-nbc-news-report-n62906

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FBI agents are interviewing employees at FEMA in an investigation of unusual changes in federal flood insurance maps that benefited oceanfront condo buildings with a history of flooding, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

The investigation follows a report by NBC News documenting more than 500 instances in which FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.

FBI agents have conducted interviews in Washington over the past 10 days with employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the flood insurance program. Others outside the government also have been interviewed and have voluntarily provided documents, according to two people interviewed by the FBI. Employees at contractors that evaluate the map changes for FEMA are also being interviewed.

Sitting in on the FBI interviews are investigators from the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the sources. FEMA, which has said it would review the flood map changes identified by NBC, is an agency within the DHS .



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[Renew Deal]

1. I hope there are no bribes involved

But it would surprise me if there weren't.

[giftedgirl77]

2. Sounds like some dirty shit going on there...

[kestrel91316]

3. Given that FEMA and most other government agencies tend to be run by RWers

and insiders from the industries they are tasked with regulating, this comes as no shock at all.

And the FBI is engaging in kabuki theater and won't find a thing wring.