Latest FEMA Headlines
All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA’s Brown Being Taken Off Hurricane Katrina Operations
Sep 9 2005 // With much discussion over just how quickly and effectively the federal government responded to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown may be the fall guy. Brown was...
News Briefs
Sep 5 2005 // FLORIDA Report Shows Car Theft Decreased in Most of Southeast Across the Southeast in major metropolitan areas auto theft decreas-ed dramatically in 2004, accompan-ied by a slight drop in auto theft nationally, according...
Okla. Communities Plan for Disaster Reduction with Mitigation Grants
Sep 1 2005 // Michael Brown, under secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced recently that FEMA has awarded 11 mitigation grants in...
Fla. 2004 Hurricane Recovery Passes $5.6 Billion Mark
Aug 18 2005 // One year after Hurricane Charley made landfall as the first of four major hurricanes to strike Florida, federal and state disaster assistance totals more than $5.6 billion, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s...
Fla. Medical Examiners Justify 135 of 306 Funerals Paid for by FEMA
Aug 12 2005 // Florida Medical Examiners meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla. maintain their autopsies and investigations show that no more than 135 deaths in Florida were hurricane-related, while FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Miamian Receives Probation for Making Fraudulent $1,452 FEMA Claim
Aug 10 2005 // Aaron Brown, a Miami man sentenced to probation in Dade County, Miami, Fla., has become the second member of his family convicted of fraudulently obtaining federal disaster money for Hurricane Frances last fall. According...
Fla. Medical Examiners to Discuss FEMA’s Non-Hurricane Funeral Payments
Aug 10 2005 // The Florida Medical Examiners Commission will meet Thursday on Key Biscayne, Fla. to discuss findings indicating that the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid hurricane funeral claims in Florida amounting to $1.3...
Miami-Dade Woman Accused of Making False FEMA Claim, Pleads Guilty
Jul 25 2005 // A Miami-Dade woman who received $12,359.39 from FEMA for damage claimed to a house she no longer owned has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office told the South Florida...
FEMA, NEMA Aid Neb. Residents Following May Storms
Jul 17 2005 // Sixty days after severe storms and flooding struck central Nebraska, many counties and towns continue to work restoring their damaged roads, water drainage systems and infrastructure. Thirty eligible applicants for federal...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // TRG Officials Must Pay $2.5 M Carmelo Zanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills,...
FEDERAL JUDGES ORDER CLAIMANTS TO REIMBURSE FEMA
Jul 4 2005 // Quiana Riggins and Lesley Johnson have been ordered by the U.S. District Court in Miami to repay the Federal Emergency Management Agency for funds they received after filing false hurricane damage claims. Riggins and...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
Storms Led FEMA to Online Innovations
Jun 15 2005 // Working in cooperation with the State of Florida, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) used technological innovations to help meet some of the challenges brought by...
FEMA, Insurers, Adjusters Charged in Md. Lawsuit by Isabel Flood Victims
Jun 9 2005 // More than 140 victims of the 2003 tropical storm Isabel are suing Homeland Security Undersecretary Michael Brown, David Maurstad, who runs the National Flood Insurance Program, 17 insurance companies and others charging...
U.S. District Court Judges Order Two S. Floridians to Reimburse FEMA
Jun 8 2005 // Quiana Riggins and Lesley Johnson were ordered yesterday by the U.S. District Court in Miami to repay the Federal Emergency Management Agency for funds they received after filing false hurricane damage claims. Riggins and...
FEMA Worker Held for Trial in 1998 Scheme to Steal $48,000
May 27 2005 // A state worker who was assigned to process Federal Emergency Management Agency claims, and who was indicted in Miami in 1998 for planning to steal nearly $48,000 in bogus hurricane claims, has been returned from Panama to...
Guilty Pleas Entered for Fake Claims
May 23 2005 // Three of 14 Miami-Dade County, Fla., residents have pled guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud and filing a false claim of damage done by Hurricane Frances. They claimed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency that $156,354...
Fla. OKs Funds to Fight PIP Fraud
May 23 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher thanked legislators for approving his request for funding to add more law enforcement investigators to fight PIP fraud and workers’ compensation fraud, and a...
FEMA Director Promises to Keep Recovery Funds Flowing
May 23 2005 // The hurricanes of 2004 taxed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to its limits, Michael Brown, FEMA director and undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told more than 1,500 state emergency managers...
DOI Investigating: Did Citizens Pay Bogus Hurricane Claims?
May 13 2005 // Florida Office of Insurance Regulation officials are investigating 42 cases of suspected fraud in hurricane-related damage claims filed last year with Citizens Property Insurance Co., the state-run insurer of last...
