FEMA sold disaster shelters as ‘Frankenstorm’ gathered strength

By Richard Pollock

Published November 14, 2012 5:00am ET

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FEMA sold disaster shelters as ‘Frankenstorm’ gathered strength — FEMA trailers at a staging area in Coblesville, N.Y., from which numerous trailers were auctioned off as "excess" in 2012. (Photo: Schoharie County, N.Y., Sheriff's Department)

Federal officials sold hundreds of emergency trailers for disaster victims at fire-sale prices in the months before Hurricane Sandy churned toward the United States, The Washington Examiner has learned.

Now, with thousands of families left homeless in New York and New Jersey by the hurricane, those same federal officials are poised to spend more taxpayer dollars to buy brand-new trailers.

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