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From Breitbart: LOS ANGELES, California — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received 270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent L.A. fires — though only abut 13,000 homes were destroyed.
A FEMA official gave the staggering figure — more than twenty times the number of eligible applicants — as concerns about fraudulent applications continue to plague the agency, more than two months after the fire.
As Breitbart News has reported, many displaced residents had tried applying for FEMA relief, only to find that someone else had already applied in their name and with their address, locking them out of the system.
FEMA attempts to make relief funds easy to apply for, but the downside is that fraudsters can more easily take advantage of the system. A FEMA official said that problem was a major reason for closing applications at the end of the month, instead of extending them for a full year, as Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) requested.
The report explains that several individuals have already been arrested for fraud in connection with FEMA grants in the Los Angeles fires.
One of the arrested fraudsters is suspected of having collected on similar fraudulent applications for two decades, going back to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, Breitbart stated.
Breitbart revealed back on January 30 how the fraud was occurring… oftentimes, it is NOT the homeowner committing the fraud:
Many Pacific Palisades residents report that when they went to the FEMA website to seek aid for the L.A. fires, their applications have been flagged as duplicates. https://pic.x.com/nht6sunmp5
Fraudsters have been snatching up these funds, using addresses within the burn zone on applications before actual victims can claim their relief.
DISGUSTING: Many Pacific Palisades residents report that when they went to the FEMA website to seek aid for the L.A. fires, their applications have been flagged as duplicates. pic.twitter.com/6Rz4SsQeez
Fraudsters have been snatching up these funds, using addresses within the burn…
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 30, 2025
FEMA Fraud: 20 Times More Applicants than Homes in Los Angeles Fires https://t.co/K6xNll9P8a via @BreitbartNews
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) March 20, 2025
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