Reply #8: Smoking Pellet Gun: SCI Awarded Contract to deal with Katrina victims [View All]

[dave29]

SCI, of funeralgate fame, was awarded the job of dealing with the victims of Katrina. Halliburton was awarded the contract for cleanup. So what was Cheney doing on the ranch with his Halliburton buddies, and Whittington, who was appointed (by Bush) to clean up the mess SCI made in Funeralgate?

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_implicated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.html

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.

Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.
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"It is appalling that the Bush administration –- which has already badly bungled its response to hurricane Katrina –- would hire a company with a record of gross mismanagement of mortuary services," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a Washington D.C.-based watchdog group. "I can only imagine that this decision was made because of President Bush's long-time friendship with the head of SCI, Robert Waltrip."