Saturday, June 09, 2007

"Massively incompetent and corrupt" 

In a blockbuster post, Matt McBride outlines his initial impressions about the Army Corps of Engineers' internal investigation on the floodgate pumps. In short, New Orleanians are at risk because the pumps haven't been fixed properly. Please read the whole thing; it's mega-important.

Here's what Matt writes about USACE and Moving Water Industries, (the Jeb! Bush crony company) that the Corps contracted with:

The Corps' New Orleans District's contract administration has been a travesty - perhaps even criminal - and there appears to have been an active effort to cover that up. MWI was writing change orders - including prices - and the Corps was sending them back to MWI with a bow on them. Duplicate payments have been made to MWI. There appears to be no written justification for most of the payments. There appear to be millions of dollars unaccounted for.

Senator Mary Landrieu has properly called for an investigation into the MWI contract based on the findings of USACE's internal investigation.

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