Immediately after the Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans, pre-Katrina local levee board members were scapegoated for the catastrophe. One member who served from 1997 to 2001 was a Catholic nun, but they were all wrongly portrayed as corrupt.

It was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that flooded New Orleans with its inferior design and construction.

This is back in the news because Louisiana’s governor wants the job of selecting New Orleans’ levee board members to be returned to the governor.

Hear about it from an expert – civil engineer Stephen Estopinal who served on the post-Katrina East Levee Authority for eight years, with two of them as its elected president.

Check out episode 122 of Beat the Big Guys podcast.