FEMA worker charged with looting

[3days]

So your house is wrecked and you just went through a hurricane and FEMA is there to help out....right?

He had just started talking with the Federal Emergency Management Agency subcontractors installing the trailer when he spotted one of the workers walking out of his gutted house carrying a plastic bin filled with several items, including a black case containing his daughter's flute.

"I told him, 'Hey, that's my personal property!' " LeBlanc said. "He just stood there dumbfounded and asked me what I wanted him to do with it, and I said, 'Put it back in my f - - - - - - house!' "

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"He was stunned when I told him I was the homeowner and not the inspector," he said. "He tried to apologize and say he wasn't that kind of person, but it was so obvious. I mean, I caught the guy red-handed."

Tanner was hired by the FEMA subcontractor Wednesday and had helped install one other trailer in Slidell, Police Chief Freddy Drennan said. He said detectives are investigating whether any property is missing from that home.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-12/113687643025370.xml

Un-f-ing believable.

[TheBaldyMan]

1. was he working for a no-bid contractor by any chance? n/t

[marmar]

2. So true...

FEMA ought to be charged with looting.