The New York Times’ Adam Nossiter reports that FBI and Housing and Urban Development agents raided a New Orlean nonprofit housing agency intended to help Hurricane Katrina victims. The Affordable House Ownership Program was supposed help elderly and poor residents displaced by the storm. Instead many of the funds for the $3.6 million went to private contractors with little accountability. Some of them went to to the brother-in-law of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

There’s not much take away here besides the fact that government can fail its neediest citizens at all levels. Since the Bush administration declined to do a "Marshall Plan" for Katrina, New Orleans residents are reliant on an array of federal and local agencies and nonprofits. Maybe the drama of a raid can alter this.-MB

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