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Hey, Dig listeners, I'm Jake Ryan, managing editor of the Kentucky Center for

Investigative Reporting.

We've got something new for you.

When floods ravaged Eastern Kentucky in July 2022, politicians promised the mess left behind

will get cleaned up.

But over the past year,

reporters Jared Bennett and Justin Hicks found that didn't actually happen.

Still, the company hired to do the work

made a big profit, and the money is still flowing.

Stay tuned for dirty business, a new special from Louisville Public Media.

In July 2022, floods killed 45 people and caused more than a billion dollars of damage in eastern Kentucky.

Then, the people who were supposed to help clean up actually made things worse for a lot of survivors.

He called her and said, you all need to get home,

said, there turn your house stamp.

It means like a death.

There is big money in disaster recovery. This hour will explore why Kentucky paid

millions to companies who never finished the job and gave them almost

unfettered access to huge chunks of property in Eastern Kentucky.

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