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Search results for "hurricanes" ...
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Con-Men: Grant Chasers Plague Katrina Aid
This series investigates the malfeasance and graft inside Louisiana's $750 million home elevation grant program, a federally financed effort to help Katrina victims rebuild safer homes.
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St. Bernard Voting Fraud
In an effort to preserve the sense of community in St. Bernard, and other similar parishes affected by Hurricane Katrina, the state passed legislation allowing residents to continue to vote at their previous residences, even if they were living outside of the parish during the rebuilding process. Fast forward six years. 2011. The rebuilding of St. Bernard continues, but with a post-Katrina population of 35,000, the parish has a fraction of its former residents. While some property owners have returned, many have moved to St. Tammany Parish. This is where WVUE's investigation begins. The investigative team received a tip that a St. Bernard Sheriff's Department employee lived in St. Tammany Parish, but was still voting in St. Bernard. This tip came right after the primary in St. Bernard's critical fall elections. The WVUE-TV team requested all voting records for the election, and found out that the deputy was the tip of the iceberg; illegal voting was widespread.
Tags: broadcast; voter fraud; Hurricane Katrina
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Infinite Monster
The book exposes the politics of recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike and explores the destitution of loss and the revelry of rebirth.
Tags: Hurricane Ike; huricane; Texas coast; storm
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New Orleans Police
CBS News takes an in depth look at the allegations of police brutality in the days following Hurricane Katrina. Federal investigators uncovered at least three murders and filed charges against a dozen police officers. The investigation determines why and how the chaos led to the crimes.
Tags: Hurricane Katrina; police; investigation; police brutality; natural disaster; hurricane
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Florida's Insurance Nightmare
Six years after eight hurricanes ripped across Florida, state residents still struggle to recover from the storms' legacy - a wrecked property insurance market. Exorbitant premiums, the highest in the world, have soured the state's struggling economy, killed real estate sales and forced families from their homes. Homeowners were told that unless they paid even more, no insurance company would take their hurricane risk. The Herald-Tribune showed that is a lie. Floridians have been lied to about why there is a crisis, where their money is going, and whether they're even protected against storm losses. Public policy has been corrupted by fiction spun by the insurance industry and its supposed regulators. Billions of dollars desperately needed for the next disaster have been siphoned offshore. And millions of homeowners are left to entrust their financial security on a system rigged to extort profit. To expose the hidden truth of Florida's insurance crisis, St. John cultivated key sources deep within every aspect of the insurance industry and sought massive amounts of financial and policy data from multiple state and national entities. When it became obvious Florida's crisis was manipulated from afar, she traveled to Bermuda and Monte Carlo to discover the hidden players truly in charge.
Tags: home insurance; property insurance; Florida; hurricane; real estate; insurance premiums; homeowners; Bermuda; Monte Carlo; state regulators; anti-trust law; State Farm
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Florida's Insurance Nightmare
The Herald-Tribune's series about the Florida property insurance market gives Floridians their first look at the risk of the insurance companies on which they rely. "In print and online, readers can see detailed financial information of more than 100 insurance carriers, the capital they have to weather a disaster, the degree to which they are overexposed, and the extent to which they are leveraged. It is the only public source to alert consumers whose homes might be in danger."
Tags: property insurance; fraud; hurricane; Florida; insurance fraud; National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Florida Office of Insurance Information;
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"Family of Secrets"
Russ Baker provides an intense investigative report on the secrets of the Bush dynasty and "its rise to power." The author also reveals hidden connections of power between the Bushes and their cohorts and "major historical events," including the "assassination of John F. Kennedy" and "Watergate."
Tags: George W. Bush; Bush dynasty; John F. Kennedy; Watergate; Nixon; democracy; Karl Rove; Poppy Bush; Hurricane Katrina; Iraq
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Katrina's Hidden Race War / Body of Evidence
The stories describe racial conflict that occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "Katrina's Hidden Race War" chronicles the formation of an armed militia in a predominately white neighborhood that shot at African American males suspected of looting. "Body of Evidence" outlines the death of Henry Glover and the New Orleans Police Department's refusal to seek medical attention for him. Glover's incinerated body was later discovered behind the Fourth District police station.
Tags: Katrina; hurricane; New Orleans; police; body; militia; Algiers Point; looters; shot; charred remains; incinerated corpse; Donnell Herrington; Wayne Janak; Henry Glover; Thompson;
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Pumps Under Pressure: A story of risk and reliability after Katrina
After Hurricane Katrina and the hurricane protection had failed, many people questioned how well the Army Corps had done their job. One of them questioning is a 10-year Army Corps veteran, Maria Garzino. "Her concerns have spurred internal inquires, General Accounting Office reports, and congressional hearings."
Tags: Engineering; New Orleans; Army Corps; Hydraulic; Hurricane
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Law and Disorder
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police officers shot and killed four civilians. A group of reporters investigated the shootings and "violent encounters" between the police and citizens. Reporters found NOPD's investigations of the shootings to be "lackluster."
Tags: New Orleans; Hurricane; Katrina; shootings; killings; civilians; NOPD