USATODAY.com - Ex-FEMA chief's client won contract

USATODAY.com - Ex-FEMA chief's client won contract

"Ex-FEMA chief's client won contract
By Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY

A firm headed by former Federal Emergency Management Agency director James Lee Witt helped a Georgia company win federal contracts worth up to $85 million in work related to Hurricane Katrina and other major 2005 storms, interviews and government records show.

Mark Kostinec unloads ice at on Sept. 18 at AmeriCold facilities in Fremont, Neb.
By Dean Jacobs, The Fremont Tribune, via AP

James Lee Witt Associates received $40,000 in lobbying fees this year for representing Atlanta-based AmeriCold Logistics, one of the nation's largest cold-storage companies, federal records show.
As part of the lobbying effort, Witt's firm arranged a meeting between FEMA officials and AmeriCold last spring, before the start of the hurricane season, Witt spokesman Barry Scanlon said. Nicol Andrews, a FEMA spokeswoman, said she could neither confirm nor deny that account."



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