NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A congressional hearing has been ordered into how U.S. aid money for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was spent.
A report on the preparatory subcommittee investigation was due this week.
The order by U.S. Rep. Pete King. R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, came after the subcommittee probe concluded that many disaster aid programs were loaded with costly loopholes.
The investigation said federal aid programs costing $21.4 billion were overrun with "rampant waste, fraud and abuse," the New York Daily News reported.
"Tens of millions of dollars may have been wasted," King told the Daily News, caused, he said, by "fraud and corruption in the private sector."
But, he added, measures that were put in place later "were very effective."
King ordered the subcommittee inquiry after a Daily News investigative series.
