Sally Kestin

A Homestead woman who collected $24,755 in Hurricane Frances relief for a sewer backup that occurred weeks before the storm received probation under a sentence imposed Tuesday in federal court...

Washington, D.C. * Inexperienced inspectors, savvy applicants and untimely operational changes led to overpayments and fraud in Miami-Dade County after Hurricane Frances, congressional investigators found. The Federal Emergency Management Agency...

A South Florida member of Congress wants to require the federal government to verify damage before declaring areas a disaster, a step bypassed in Miami-Dade County last fall that led...

Miami-Dade County residents collected Hurricane Frances aid for belongings they didn't own, temporary housing they never requested and cars worth far less than the government paid, according to a federal...

Florida officially recorded 123 fatalities from last year's hurricanes, but the federal government has paid funeral expenses for at least 315 deaths, including those of a man who shot himself...

Florida's auditor general agreed Tuesday to legislators' demands that the state scrutinize the legitimacy of insurance and federal disaster aid payments in Miami-Dade County and possibly other parts of the...

As the second hurricane in less than a month bore down on Florida last fall, a federal consultant predicted a "huge mess" that could reflect poorly on President Bush and...

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to force the release of government records on the distribution of millions in disaster aid following last year's four hurricanes. The...