The chaos following katrina gave an interesting opportunity to a contractor working for AshBritt of Pompano Beach, Ha. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, this fellow, assigned a trash-hauling job, loaded up his truck from a dump site in Jackson County, Miss., then pulled around to the entrance tower to the same dump site in order to earn a fee. He got caught after playing this game twice. Others broke the rules repeatedly. Subcontractors working for Phillips & Jordan of Knoxville, Term., says the Corps, took advantage of extra payments for trash carried more than 15 miles to a dump by routinely overstating mileage.
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