Tag Archives: new orleans
AP issues correction to instance of Katrina shorthand
Today, the Associated Press issued a correction to one of its recent stories after Levees.org found an error. In an October 13 story on New Orleans’s criminal justice system, the AP stated incorrectly that a report by the Philadelphia-based PFM Group said operations at New Orleans’s Criminal District Court was “severely hampered by Hurricane Katrina, […]
Joe Bruno on Appeals Panel Flip-Flip: This is Politics Not Law
Joe Bruno, agreed to an interview request today with Levees.org after getting out of federal court in New Orleans where he was representing flood survivors in a suit against the Army Corps of Engineers and Washington Group International. We wanted to know Mr. Bruno’s take on a recent appeals panel’s reversal of its own ruling […]
Corps Commander Admits Relying on Hearsay When He Blamed Katrina Flooding on New Orleans Officials
In a surprise development, the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, has come clean over statements made to the New York Times after Katrina. The Corps Commander who was in charge right after the 2005 storm, told NYTimes reporter John Schwartz that although the Corps was responsible for the levee failures, he […]
