What we've done is try to mediate these complaints. In a lot of cases, we were able to come up with some sort of agreement between the parties.
Yes, we are investigating although there have been no arrests so far. The investigation involves the activities at Sewell of both the New Orleans Police Department and another sort of city official whom I can't identify right now.
There's been plenty of movement because it's an active investigation, but there's nothing that we can talk about.
We received 17 complaints just last week. People went to seek FEMA aid or get food stamps and found that their Social Security cards had already been used to get that aid.
We've made some inquiries. I know the animal rescue people documented a lot of what was going on.
We fear that the motivation was identity theft but we're hoping that we stopped it in time.
We can confirm that euthanasia is what we are investigating.
If (Jordan) decides his office is going to prosecute, that would be the way the process proceeds.
It is a very, very active investigation. We expect developments quickly.
We'd heard rumors all along. We got enough calls from victims' families asking us to look into it that we did.
