Flood of Lies

On the Media | Aug 31, 2017

One of the most widely misreported stories of Hurricane Katrina involved the deaths of 35 elderly residents of St. Rita’s nursing home in a suburb of New Orleans. The nursing home owners, Sal and Mabel Mangano, had decided not to evacuate prior to the storm, and they were charged with negligent homicide. James Cobb, their lawyer and author of Flood of Lies: The St. Rita's Nursing Home Tragedy, tells Brooke about how the Manganos became media scapegoats for the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.

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