January 31, 2022
The state of Louisiana is now accepting buyout applications from some property owners in a Livingston Parish neighborhood that continually floods. The buyout program affects property owners in Priority Zone 1 of the Spring Park neighborhood of Denham Springs. The …
March 21, 2014
Attorneys say the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s threat to have Livingston Parish’s Hurricane Gustav debris removal monitors investigated for fraud is “gratuitous” and “improper.” FEMA has alleged that monitors hired by the parish to oversee the removal of leaning trees …
January 14, 2014
A financial institution is paying lawyers $700 per hour to help Louisiana’s Livingston Parish fight the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s denials of $60 million in claims for Hurricane Gustav-related cleanup costs. But its identity is shrouded in secrecy. The Advocate …
January 14, 2013
Officials in Louisiana’s Livingston Parish claim lies, bungling and withholding of information are grounds for reversal of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s decision to deny $46 million in waterway cleanup costs Livingston incurred after Hurricane Gustav. FEMA investigators used incorrect …