The results were not pretty. The GAO report concluded that between $600 million and $1.4 billion (yes, with a &8220;B&8221;) in assistance was improper at best, potentially fraudulent at worst. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, of course, deny the widespread problems saying the GAO only looked at a fraction of the total aid delivered. The GAO remains 95 percent confident that its math is correct and its small sample accurately represents the whole picture. Auditors have shown federal money &8212; read your tax dollars &8212; have gone to a number of obviously non-essential items. Those include things such as a week&8217;s vacation in the Caribbean for one alleged evacuee, season tickets to the New Orleans Saints games, bottles of fancy champagne and even &8220;Girls Gone Wild&8221; videos. Suffice to say the videos were not the only ones featuring &8220;wild&8221; behavior. The only thing more shameful than the people who purposely defrauded the government is that FEMA had virtually no plan to stop these cons from bilking the American taxpayers. FEMA&8217;s ineptness is tragic, plain and simple. Let&8217;s pray another storm doesn&8217;t hit soon. The federal government&8217;s deficit is growing and, quite simply, another trip to Hawaii is just too much for us to stomach.