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Heck of a job Brownie (Michael Brown of FEMA): 'Life after government'
Edited on Mon Aug-20-07 07:03 AM by EV_Ares



Michael Brown, then director of FEMA, with Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, an agency which Brown had earlier that year accused of an "unfocused empire-building'' agenda. The day was Sept. 2, 2005, in Biloxi, Miss., where President Bush told Brown: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.'' Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.
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((NOTE: Does everyone who gets fired for incompetence and work for this WH, turn around and get all kinds of contracts with the government on our dollar??))
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by Mark Silva

Michael Brown, the former federal official who bore the brunt of criticism for the government's handling of Hurricane Katrina, has moved on to a new career -- offering disaster relief and data-mining for government agencies and other customers.

One company he represents, InferX, has found work with the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, Brown says, and is attempting to sell its services to airlines and agencies that monitor passengers for potential terrorist threats.

Another, Las Vegas-based Noninvasive Medical Technologies, which makes health-care monitors and has a contract with the Air Force for combat-casualty care. Its wireless equipment allows medics to set up triage in the field. "I could have used this in Katrina, in a heartbeat," Brown says.

And Brown is doing work for Atlanta-based Charys Holding Co., whose subsidiaries Cotton Companies and Viasys Services build and restore wireless communications -- cell phone towers, fiber-optic networks and the like. In June, Cotton restored services after flooding in Gainesville, Texas. Bad weather can mean good business for Charys, a FEMA contractor. "2007 is predicted to be a very active hurricane season," its Web site says.

Yet Brown, who resigned under pressure as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency two weeks after Katrina, has not returned to New Orleans.

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