Sunday, July 29, 2007
Ending Corporate Looting of the Gulf Coast
by Ana Maria
Recently, a man got four years in prison for burglarizing a neighbor’s home to loot it right after Katrina. What kind of jail time will the insurance industries’ corporate cronies get for deliberately contriving to steal the claims money from policyholders in the Katrina-ravaged areas that crossed three states: Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama?
Here in Mississippi, we have two state officials responsible for holding these corporate crooks accountable to the people. We have State Attorney General Jim Hood who is doing his job to bring justice to the people of Mississippi, and we’re grateful to him for his strength and fortitude in the face of tremendous pressure to go along to get along—a position of weakness, for sure.
We also have State Insurance Commissioner George Dale, whose idea of justice is more of an insurance insiders “Just Us” mentality. Read more at A.M. in the Morning!
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