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News Articles
Contract Oversight - Complete Katrina Archive


News Articles
Governor's Relative Is Big Contract Winner, New York Times, December 7, 2005.
Rosemary Barbour happens to be married to a nephew of Mississippi's governor, Haley Barbour. Since the Reagan administration, when Mrs. Barbour worked as a White House volunteer as a college student, she has been active in the Republican Party.

FEMA Leader Under Clinton Profits From Experience, New York Times, October 10, 2005.
Not long before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, James Lee Witt, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and his colleagues called officials on the Gulf Coast to offer their help.

Katrina work goes to officials who led Iraq effort, Reuters, October 6, 2005.
Top officials who managed U.S. reconstruction projects in Iraq have been hired by some of the same big companies that received those contracts and which are now involved in a rush of deals to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.

How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?, Time Magazine, September 25, 2005.
In presidential politics, the victor always gets the spoils, and chief among them is the vast warren of offices that make up the federal bureaucracy.

Contractors Win Relief Work, CNN Transcript, September 12, 2005.
A subsidiary of Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, has been tapped to rebuild Navy bases in Mississippi. KBR received the work as part of a preexisting competitive contract.

Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts, Reuters, September 10, 2005.
Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In Storm's Ruins, a Rush to Rebuild and Reopen for Business, New York Times, September 10, 2005.
Private contractors, guided by two former directors of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other well-connected lobbyists and consultants, are rushing to cash in on the unprecedented sums to be spent on Hurricane Katrina relief and reconstruction.

Ex-FEMA Director's Halliburton Work Protested, Dallas Morning News, September 7, 2005.
With the Federal Emergency Management Agency under fire over its response to Hurricane Katrina, a watchdog group protested Wednesday that former FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh now does work for Halliburton on disaster issues.