All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 12 2005 // Florida Medical Examiners meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla. maintain their autopsies and investigations show that no more than 135 deaths in Florida were hurricane-related, while FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Aug 10 2005 // Aaron Brown, a Miami man sentenced to probation in Dade County, Miami, Fla., has become the second member of his family convicted of fraudulently obtaining federal disaster money for Hurricane Frances last fall.According...
Aug 10 2005 // The Florida Medical Examiners Commission will meet Thursday on Key Biscayne, Fla. to discuss findings indicating that the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid hurricane funeral claims in Florida amounting to $1.3...
Jul 25 2005 // A Miami-Dade woman who received $12,359.39 from FEMA for damage claimed to a house she no longer owned has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office told the South Florida...
Jul 17 2005 // Sixty days after severe storms and flooding struck central Nebraska, many counties and towns continue to work restoring their damaged roads, water drainage systems and infrastructure.Thirty eligible applicants for federal...
Jul 4 2005 // TRG Officials Must Pay $2.5 M Carmelo Zanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills,...
Jul 4 2005 // Quiana Riggins and Lesley Johnson have been ordered by the U.S. District Court in Miami to repay the Federal Emergency Management Agency for funds they received after filing false hurricane damage claims.Riggins and...
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
Jun 15 2005 // Working in cooperation with the State of Florida, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) used technological innovations to help meet some of the challenges brought by...
Jun 9 2005 // More than 140 victims of the 2003 tropical storm Isabel are suing Homeland Security Undersecretary Michael Brown, David Maurstad, who runs the National Flood Insurance Program, 17 insurance companies and others charging...
Jun 8 2005 // Quiana Riggins and Lesley Johnson were ordered yesterday by the U.S. District Court in Miami to repay the Federal Emergency Management Agency for funds they received after filing false hurricane damage claims.Riggins and...
May 27 2005 // A state worker who was assigned to process Federal Emergency Management Agency claims, and who was indicted in Miami in 1998 for planning to steal nearly $48,000 in bogus hurricane claims, has been returned from Panama to...
May 23 2005 // Three of 14 Miami-Dade County, Fla., residents have pled guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud and filing a false claim of damage done by Hurricane Frances. They claimed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency that $156,354...
May 23 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher thanked legislators for approving his request for funding to add more law enforcement investigators to fight PIP fraud and workers’ compensation fraud, and a...
May 23 2005 // The hurricanes of 2004 taxed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to its limits, Michael Brown, FEMA director and undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told more than 1,500 state emergency managers...
May 13 2005 // Florida Office of Insurance Regulation officials are investigating 42 cases of suspected fraud in hurricane-related damage claims filed last year with Citizens Property Insurance Co., the state-run insurer of last...
May 12 2005 // “The hurricanes of 2004 taxed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to its limits, Michael Brown, FEMA director and undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security told more than 1,500 state emergency...
May 2 2005 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency pledged at a conference in Orlando to improve its public education efforts to that in the future hurricane victims will not have unreasonable expectations about how FEMA can help...
Apr 29 2005 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is being criticized in Florida for being too slow to pay counties for hurricane claims and too aggressive in paying benefits for people who died during last year’s hurricanes;...
Apr 25 2005 // Florida members of Congress said Sunday they were appalled by revelations that some Federal Emergency Management Agency housing inspectors had criminal records.“There is just simply no excuse for this,” said...