- $2,358 in rental assistance paid to one individual concurrent with payment of approximately $8,000 for that registrant to stay 70 nights–at more than $100 per night–in a hotel in Hawaii. The GAO found that the individual did not live at the claimed damaged property when the hurricane struck.
- $6,700 in rental assistance paid to one registrant who actually stayed more than five months in hotels in California, for which FEMA paid around $8,000.
- $19,636 paid to a registrant for expedited assistance, rental assistance and replacement of personal property. No physical inspection of the damaged property was performed; the GAO’s review showed that the individual never lived at the damaged property for which she was paid.
- $109,708 paid to eight individuals submitting eight registrations using their own social security numbers. All payments, 24 of them, were sent to a single apartment. While four of the registrants were family members displaced from the same damaged property, the other four did not live at the property for which the money was paid at the time of the hurricane.
- $139,000 paid to one individual who used 13 different social security numbers, only one of which belonged to the registrant. An investigation showed that the applicant did not live at any of the 13 addresses in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that were claimed as being damaged, and eight of those addresses either did not exist or were publicly owned properties.
- $20,000 to a registrant incarcerated in a Louisiana prison from April 2001 to the present who applied for assistance by telephone, using a post office box in Louisiana as the address for the damaged property.
- $3,700 in debit card charges to a jewelry store in Arlington, Texas, for “diamond jewelry including watches, earrings and a ring.”
- $2,200 in debit card charges for an all-inclusive one-week stay at a vacation resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
- $2,000 charged to the debit card for five New Orleans Saints football season tickets.
- $600 in debit card charges at a “gentleman’s club” in Houston, Texas.
- $400 in debit card charges for adult erotica products, Houston.
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