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02/29/2008: ""Activists" are often frauds"

A tax preparer by trade, Robert Green was interviewed by countless news agencies and film crews after the storm, recounting for anyone who cared to listen the heart-wrenching story of how he lost his home and two family members in Katrina's 2005 flooding.

Before word of his guilty plea surfaced in December, Green had been championed by actor Brad Pitt to be among the first to receive a home through Pitt's Make It Right program.

Green had pleaded guilty in April to federal felony charges stemming from a scheme in which he prepared false tax returns attached to fraudulent home loan applications from as early as 2001.

[ Most "reality" is a media fabrication to make you feel good, and keep giving money and buying products. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_re_us/katrina_activist