AP: Nursing Home Owners Sue Over Katrina

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Nursing Home Owners Sue Over Katrina


Tuesday September 5, 2006 9:01 PM

By MICHELLE ROBERTS

Associated Press Writer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34
of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing
the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep
residents safe and evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.

An attorney for Salvador and Mabel Mangano said Tuesday that the lawsuit
was filed last week, just before the anniversary of the storm.

The Manganos own St. Rita's nursing home in St. Bernard Parish, a coastal
suburb of New Orleans badly flooded by Katrina.

Louisiana's attorney general had them booked for negligent homicide last fall
after investigating the 34 deaths there, but the couple wasn't formally charged
by a grand jury. No grand jury has been convened because damage to St.
Bernard Parish government buildings and the displacement of the parish's residents
have hobbled the court system, the attorney general's office said. One is
expected to be convened this month.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6060078,00.html

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1. I was wondering why no one was suing the government

over the government's gross negligence in Katrina. I guess if you intentionally ignoring the poor, you have a victim too poor to hold you accountable.

[sandnsea]

2. Vote for no-government Republicans

Then sue the government when they don't respond because there's no government. lol. Gotta' love these fascist fatcats.