I don't know anything about it.

The bottom line is we take fraud seriously, and the Red Cross will prosecute.

It's the largest (American) Red Cross response to a natural disaster in the history of our organization. We know it's going to cost in the millions, because we've already sheltered about 160,000 people and we have over 650 (Red Cross) shelters open in 17 states. But we don't have final figures because we're in the midst of trying to respond to this disaster and meet the immediate needs.

Red Cross determined that it should accelerate the receipt of funds by victims, even if this meant creating a funding gap while pledges turn into actual cash receipts.

There were contract employees...that were in the call center giving out code numbers [to their friends and family] to go to their local Western Union to pick up money. [These people] were really not Katrina victims.

This is one of the biggest schemes that we've seen.