Here’s some more reasons why New Orleans hasn’t been rebuilt yet:

Two former Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in federal prison for soliciting bribes while managing a FEMA base camp in Algiers.

Andrew Rose and Loyd Holliman, identified by their attorneys following their arrest in February as Colorado firefighters who came to New Orleans to help with search-and-rescue operations after Hurricane Katrina, pleaded guilty in April to public bribery. […]

According to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office, the two men met on Dec. 7 with a Louisiana businessman who won a $1 million contract to provide meals at the camp through Feb. 28. Rose and Holliman told the contractor that in exchange for payments from him, they would inflate the head count for the contract.

The contractor reported the bribe solicitation to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office, which notified the FBI and Letten’s office. The businessman agreed to wear a hidden recorder and recorded subsequent meetings with the pair.

Rose met with the contractor on Jan. 19 and asked for an initial $20,000 to be split evenly between him and Holliman as a reward for getting the contract and for inflating the meal count, prosecutors said. Both defendants, at a meeting later in January, told the contractor they wanted an additional $2,500 a week each for the length of the contract, prosecutors said.