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    Corrupt Atlanta Woman Convicted of Stealing from Hurricane Victims in $156 Million FEMA Fraud Scandal

    By Will TannerJune 18, 2025Updated:June 18, 2025
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    In an absolutely sickening corruption case out of Atlanta, Georgia, a woman in the area was convicted of stealing funds via a fraudulent $156 million FEMA contract in a jaw-dropping case that involved her pilfering the money, which was meant for Puerto Rican victims of Hurricane Maria. The conviction occurred in late January of 2025.

    Announcing the conviction in a stomach-churning press statement that detailed how the woman stole from needy hurricane victims and the taxpayers providing the aid funds, the DOJ’s US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia said, ” Following an eight-day trial, Tiffany Brown was found guilty by a jury of defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) in connection with a nearly $156 million contract she was awarded to provide self-heating meals to the residents of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and for fraudulently obtaining $700,000 in litigation advances from the Litigation Funding Group of Georgia (“LFG”) by falsely claiming that she had settled with a logistics company who failed to deliver the meals to FEMA.”

    The press statement went on to note that, in the wake of Hurricane Maria decimating Puerto Rico on September of 217, FEMA. which had run out of its own stored meals, issued a solicitation for 40 million self-heating meals that did not require any external heating like boiling water or microwaving. The corrupt Atlanta woman, Tiffany Brown, submitted a proposal in which she falsely claimed that she would be able to deliver 10 million meals per day and meet FEMA’s delivery requirements.

    Noting what happened next, and how she got away with the fraud, the DOJ went on to note, “But Tribute was incapable of delivering 10 million meals, never prepositioned any meals, and did not have the claimed partnership. A FEMA contacting officer spoke with Brown after receiving Tribute’s proposal. The contracting officer knew that U.S.-based manufacturers could not produce the number of meals that Brown claimed in her proposal. In response, Brown falsely represented that she was procuring the self-heating meals from Action Meals, a Canadian manufacturer. Brown sent FEMA a doctored image of an Action Meals package with a fraudulent expiration date.”

    FEMA then awarded Brown “a $155,982,000 contract requiring the delivery of 30 million self-heating meals between October 7 and October 23, 2017.” At that point, Brown hadn’t even secured a supplier, and was unable to meet her contractual duties, but she had already bilked taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars: “FEMA paid Brown $255,000 based on her submission of fraudulent invoices and bills of ladings claiming that she had successfully delivered 50,000 self-heating meals. Brown in fact had delivered 50,000 non-compliant, dehydrated meals.”



    That wasn’t the end of it, as the fraud continued for months after FEMA canceled the contract, as “Brown continued making false representations to FEMA. For example, Brown submitted fraudulent invoices in December 2017 and June 2019 claiming to have purchased tens of thousands of dollars of heaters.”

    Still not done, Brown then created fake personas in an attempt to bilk taxpayers out of $6.5 million in a pretend settlement with a logistics company, Total Quality Logistics (“TQL”), whereas in reality, TQL had obtained a default judgment against Brown for unpaid deliveries.

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    As a result of all that, from the fake claim to be able to deliver tens of millions of meals to her fraudulent billings, Brown was found guilty “of 11 counts of major disaster fraud, 17 counts of wire fraud, one count of theft of government money, and three counts of money laundering.”

    Commenting on the horrible fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Richard S. Moultrie, Jr said,  “Brown resorted to extraordinary lengths to defraud FEMA during a critical period when individuals were in desperate need of food resources during the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria.”

    Continuing, Moultrie said that people like her won’t be able to get away with stealing from the desperate, saying, “Our Office, along with our law enforcement partners, will remain vigilant in pursuing and prosecuting individuals who exploit the devastation caused by natural disasters as an opportunity to commit fraud.”

    Watch Brown speak about the scandal here:

    Featured image credit: base image from the embedded video





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