Hurricane Katrina
Disaster Profiteering: Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake
As we New Orleanians learned after during and after Hurricane Katrina, unscrupulous disaster victims, recovery contractors, politically-connected corporations and even government officials think nothing of the further exploitation of the profoundly vulnerable disaster victims. Between the looters, the fraudulent contractors and insurance companies, the scandalously corrupt Governor Kathleen Blanco and her handlers at the Shaw Group, the predators why prey on disaster victims come from all walks of life and steal from those who have just lost everything. Unfortunately for the survivors of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti, their plight is not over yet, as many will undoubtedly be targeted for further exploitation by those claiming to be the ones providing relief and assistance...
