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September 12, 2007

FEMA won’t reimburse $12M

The Sun Herald, 9/12/7 The federal government is refusing to reimburse Harrison County nearly $12 million for removing debris from Hurricane Katrina, citing concerns about the quality and cost of the work. FEMA has concluded that Harrison County paid “unreasonably high” costs for clearing storm-damaged trees and didn’t adequately document the work, according to a…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 12, 2007

Attorney in Miss. bribery case requests minimum-security prison

The Commercial Dispatch, 9/11/7 A federal judge has agreed to recommend that wealthy Gulf Coast attorney Paul Minor be sent to a minimum-security prison in Florida to serve time for a judicial bribery conviction. But it’s not clear whether the U.S. Bureau of Prisons will grant the request. The prison Minor wants to go is…