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By
The Associated Press
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Published: Wed, July 23, 2008 - 5:44 pm
says efforts to fight fraud, waste and corruption are as important
to the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast as housing, levee improvements
and other work.
Retired Major General Doug O'Dell says making sure disaster
recovery dollars are properly spent is important not only to the
victims of the 2005 hurricanes but also to U.S. taxpayers.
He says recovery-related issues such as criminal justice, health
care, housing, transparency in government and levee work are all
inter-related. And he says the failure of any ones of those could
lead to the failure of all the rest.
O'Dell made those comments Wednesday after meeting with a law
enforcement officials in New Orleans, including inspectors general
and federal prosecutors.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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