House Bill Seeks 30-Year Prison Penalty for Disaster Fraud

[FSogol]

By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scammers hoping to finance tropical vacations or season tickets to football games with federal disaster funds may have second thoughts with House passage of legislation imposing sentences of up to 30 years for fraud related to disaster relief.

Uh oh, Is there a Neil Bush exception? :rofl:

[babylonsister]

1. Now if only the House would police themselves. nt

[Daphne08]

2. How about a prison penalty for war profiteering? n/t

[1932]

3. And 30 years for presidents who fumble disaster preparation & avoidance

and 25 years for passing the buck to your FEMA chief, and 10 years for people who lie about how the victims are the criminals so the public doesn't feel so bad about leaving a lot of innocent people for days without any assistance and, and how about 10 years for the police who wouldn't let people walk out of the city.

[bullimiami]

4. 30 years for shmucks who scam a few hundred or few thousand bucks

of their own money back from fat tony in washington but of course no talk of jail time for the big crooks who defraud us out of millions and deliver crap or nothing for the contracts their buddies give them.