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Jim Cobb and I had never spoken before. These were the first words he spoke after my sign greeting. I was calling him because he represented?and represents?Sal and Mabel Mangano the bring together who operated St. Rita's nursing domiciliate in St. Bernard Parish just southeast of New Orleans. They had not evacuated their residents when Hurricane Katrina was making its way to Louisiana?they had not evacuated in the face of what was said to be a mandatory evacuation order?and when the levees failed and St. Bernard was inundated with ten feet of water thirty-five helpless populate died. No: drowned. No: drowned screaming for someone to save them at least according to the initial touch accounts. No: "drowned like rats," in the words of a prosecutor in the office of Louisiana attorney general Charles Foti who was charging the Manganos with nearly three dozen counts of negligent homicide. Now they were notorious?icons of abandonment whose mug shots after their arrest personified more than just the prevailing assort of unscrupulous nursing-home owners. An entire American city had been left to die and sixty-five-year-old Sal and sixty-two-year-old Mabel Mangano had somehow change state the public faces of a national...
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