Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal has raised serious questions about the Army Corps of Engineers’ relationship with the American Society of Engineers, or ASCE, the group the Corps gave more than $1 million to review their official report on what went wrong with the levees following Katrina.

The allegations come after Rosenthal’s group reviewed a grant the organization asked for through a Freedom of Information Act request.

She said part of the deal also required the ASCE to give presentations on behalf of the Corps, nationally and abroad.

"Members of the ASCE have given at least 30 of those Powerpoint presentations to engineering colleges, universities, both nationwide and abroad,” Rosenthal said. “Like we said before, it's a PR campaign for the Corps.”

According to the document obtained by Rosenthal and Levees.org, the grant required the ASCE to “communicate lessons learned and best practices.”

"The problem is the American Society never divulged or revealed the presentations were paid for by the Corps,” Rosenthal said. “That's a breach of ethics, and second and probably even more importantly, these Powerpoint presentations sound like a PR publication for the Corps.

“They understate the Corps’ involvement. They overstate the locals’ involvement and the strength of the storm and the vulnerability of the city."

Thursday, Levees.org played a portion of what they said is one of the ASCE presentations, where they said the narrator tried to shift blame away from the Corps and onto the City’s levee board – a group Levees.org said mainly was responsible for preventing vandalism and cutting grass.

"(The levee board) wanted to cut costs at each step of the way and that pressure ended up comprising safety,” the narrator said in the video.

The Corps said it didn’t pay members of the ASCE to present false information.

"Absolutely not,” Corps spokesman Wade J. Habshey Jr., said. “The Corps is reducing risk every day for the people of the Greater New Orleans area and this is made possible in part by the objective reviews of the American Society of Civil Engineers."

Habshey and a spokesman from the ASCE said all of the presentations were not funded by the Corps, but, instead paid for entirely by the engineering group itself.