Meeks Charity Vowed Katrina Aid – but Never Delivered

The promises Congressman Gregory Meeks made to the victims of Hurricane Katrina were broken as badly as the levees, a former official in New Orleans told The Post.

The man chosen by the Queens Democrat to identify needy families displaced by the monster storm said the pledged financial assistance never arrived.

“These people came down here, sold a good story and didn’t deliver,” said Louis Rainey, a former Louisiana Democratic political director who himself lost his home to Katrina.

Meeks’ controversial charity, New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families, is now under investigation by federal prosecutors.

According to its own filings, NOAH-F delivered just $1,392 of the roughly $31,000 it raised “We didn’t get the funds,” Rainey told The Post. “We never got a dime.”

Read more: (Rebecca Rosenberg and Jeremy Olshan, “Ex-New Orleans Big: Charity Vowed Katrina Aid – but Never Delivered,” New York Post, 2/22/10)