Atlanta woman heading to prison, paying $1.7M for defrauding FEMA in $156M hurricane relief contract

An Atlanta pistillate who was convicted of defrauding the Federal Management Agency connected a declaration to assistance with Hurricane Maria alleviation has learned her fate.

Tiffany Brown, 43, was sentenced to 12 years successful situation followed by 5 years of supervised release. She was besides ordered to wage much than $1.7 cardinal successful restitution.

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Brown received a $156 cardinal declaration to supply 30 cardinal self-heating meals for Puerto Ricans successful the aftermath of the devastating hurricane successful 2017. Federal investigators claimed that she provided lone 50,000 meals and nary of them were self-heating arsenic promised.

A national expansive assemblage indicted Brown successful September connected 11 counts of large catastrophe fraud, 14 counts of ligament fraud, 1 number of theft of authorities money, and 3 counts of wealth laundering.

Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico arsenic a class 4 tempest successful 2017. After FEMA declared it a large disaster, the authorities bureau started to look for vendors to supply implicit 40 cardinal self-heating meals per week to the island.

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FEMA said that Brown submitted a connection that her company, Tribute Contracting LLC, could assistance and supply 10 cardinal meals per time with 210 trucks. Brown’s connection besides said the trucks were equipped with the unit and tools needed to marque the deliveries, according to investigators.

Brown spoke to respective nationalist media outlets astir the contract’s termination arsenic she said that she was a scapegoat for FEMA’s process with tiny concern contracts.

“I resent the information that this is turning into an attack, it’s an onslaught connected FEMA utilizing maine arsenic a vessel. Please don’t usage maine arsenic a vessel. if you privation to onslaught FEMA oregon code FEMA’s concerns delight onslaught it from a much intelligent position alternatively of it being astir me,” Brown told ABC News in 2018. Read the afloat ABC News study here.

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