Contactors Billed Government Twice For Same Work After Katrina

Among inflating their bills, contractors cheated the sysem in the clean up process when they double billed the government for the same job. At the heart of the investigation is the U.S. Corps of Engineers

(AP/Yahoo)In blaming the Corps, the report said the Army’s officials “regularly credited contractors with hauling more debris to dumps than they actually carried.” Auditors found that the Corps’ assessments of contractor performance were “overly generous,” “unusually high,” “more on the liberal side,” “often very liberal” and “consistently on the high side.”

The Corps also was blamed for allowing inflated charges in more than $300 million in contracts for temporary roof repairs using blue plastic sheeting.