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Billion dollar fraud
A Hawaii vacation, season football tickets, Dom Perignon champagne ordered at a strip club, and a sex change operation are among the many items paid for with monies provided to hurricane victims by the federal government. A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, says the total worth of fraudulent charges is close to $1.4 billion. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) doled out money to scammers using phony addresses, including post office boxes, UPS stores, and a cemetery as their damaged property addresses. Even prisoners, using a warden's phone, successfully applied for financial relief. The GAO estimates a whopping 16% of all the applications for assistance for "victims" of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina turned out to be bogus.
Consumer eugenics
Wealthy foreign couples are getting around laws banning sex selection in their home countries by coming to America, where it's legal to get the boy, or girl, they want. Opponents say medical tourism for designer babies should be regulated but a doctor who offers embryo selection for about $20,000 says he is serving the marketplace and helping Nature, not playing God. As one Australian who traveled to the U.S. for the procedure says, "Some people spend $50,000 to $70,000 for a BMW car and think nothing of it, but this is a life that's going to be with us forever.”
The president, the prime minister and the king
When Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi comes to visit later this month, President Bush plans to take Japan’s leader to pay homage to the “king of rock and roll.” Bush and Koizumi are scheduled to take a trip to Graceland Mansion, the 13-acre estate in Memphis, Tennessee where Elvis Presley lived at the time of his death. Elvis fan websites say the Japanese leader is an enthusiastic member of his country's Elvis Presley fan club and even sang along to an Elvis number played at a banquet during a visit to Australia last year.
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