They are really not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of mass disruption. They wouldn't necessarily have enough radiation to kill anyone, but they could require the shutdown of potentially large parts of the city.

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It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and lie, and you could get money. It was just a question of how many people were willing to make false statements.

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They're not close to where they need to be.

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In total, the case study registrants of whom we conducted investigations have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments based on potentially fraudulent activities.

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There are lots of disputes over reimbursements for meals.

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There's a lot of heavy lifting required to put an effective fraud prevention system in place by this summer. It will take years. You need to have a mechanism in place and field test it. FEMA doesn't have one.

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The bottom line ... is that weak or nonexistent controls leave the government vulnerable to substantial fraud and abuse.

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I visited Texas in January, and guess what? All ... of these addresses are bogus.

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