OpinionOpinion: Arrests Alone Won’t Fix What Broke in Flood Control Spending
High-profile charges are a start, but lasting reform requires fixing the procurement and verification systems that let ghost projects happen in the first place.
Mark Villanueva
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Fact CheckFact Check: How Many Flagged Flood Control Projects Are Actually "Ghost" Projects?
Only 14 of 421 flood control projects flagged for review have so far been confirmed as nonexistent by the Department of Justice — not all 421, despite some public claims.
TechnologyFalsified Project Coordinates Raise Questions Over Flood Control Verification
Senate investigators allege inaccurate GPS coordinates were submitted for thousands of flood control projects, undermining the geotagging system meant to verify they were actually built.
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