Authorities get over 1,200 fraud complaints since La. floods

BATON ROUGE - Authorities have received more than 1,200 disaster fraud complaints related to August's historic flooding in south Louisiana.U.S. Attorney Walt Green announced that tally Friday during a press briefing at the National Center for Disaster Fraud's offices on the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge.Green said the Justice Department-created center has received more than 68,000 fraud complaints related to more than 40 disasters since Hurricane Katrina in 2005- and referred