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Red Cross Workers Accused of Katrina Fraud

In the past three months, 50 people have been indicted in Bakersfield, Calif., for allegedly siphoning hundreds of thousands from a Red Cross program.

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Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy

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