Haley Barbour relative defrauded FEMA after Katrina, judge rules

[cali]

By Maria Recio | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Six years after Hurricane Katrina, a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was found by a federal court to have masterminded a massive fraud against the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the inspection of the legendary trailers that housed storm refugees along the Gulf Coast.

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims found last week that Rosemary Barbour's company, Jackson, Miss.,-based Alcatec LLC, had engaged in a fraudulent billing scheme as part of a $100 million, five-year maintenance contract with FEMA.

She was ordered to pay more than $350,000 in penalties and damages. In often colorful language, the judge described the testimony of Rosemary Barbour during an eight-day trial in May in Jackson as "exasperating" and "bumble-headed."

Rosemary Barbour, the company's sole owner, is the wife of the governor's nephew, Charles Barbour, a former Hinds County supervisor who last week lost a Mississippi Senate GOP primary.

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[liberal N proud]

1. The Governor can pardon her

No problem!

These people know this and will keep doing it as long as they can.

[ashling]

3. Uh, Barbour is no longer running for president

this is a federal crime

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Just like Haley, the former lobbyist,

she's nothing but a parasite.