{"id":11850,"date":"2011-03-29T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=11850"},"modified":"2011-03-29T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:05:49","slug":"carpet-baggers-hate-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=11850","title":{"rendered":"Carpet baggers – hate em"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was summoned to jury duty in February the case I got assigned to was about three New York investment bankers who scrappily put together a “construction company” to come down and repair houses post the Federal Flood. The attorneys asked if anyone in the jury had a problem with this – HA HA HA HA. Really? Are you kidding me? I’ve been railing at Carpet Baggers pre-Katrina\/Federal Flood and now this?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile last week there was an indictment<\/a> handed down to FEMA Supervisor and Disaster Services contractor for basically seeing a disaster and trying to capitalize off of it. Yoopee is all I have to say. From nola.com:<\/p>\n

If convicted, each man faces a maximum 25 years in prison and fines of $500,000. Mr. Blevins also faces three additional years in prison for alleged witness tampering during the investigation. Prosecutors said he urged his girlfriend to lie to a grand jury about the ill-gotten contract. The government said it plans to try to recoup $31 million paid under the contract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was summoned to jury duty in February the case I got assigned to was about three New York investment bankers who scrappily put together a “construction company” to come down and repair houses post the Federal Flood. The attorneys asked if anyone in the jury had a problem with this – HA HA HA HA. Really? Are you kidding me? I’ve been railing at Carpet Baggers pre-Katrina\/Federal Flood and now this? Meanwhile last… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-358","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11851,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions\/11851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}