The Nation - News from Feb. 4, 1985
Federal and congressional investigators are examining whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency violated personnel rules by hiring a number of retired military policemen with ties to the agency’s top officials, the Washington Post reported. At least a dozen current and former employees served in military or civilian life with top agency officials, particularly FEMA Director Louis O. Giuffrida, a brigadier general in the Army reserve, and former No. 3 official Fred J. Villella, a retired lieutenant colonel.
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