Eyewitness News has learned that New Orleans Inspector General Robert Cerasoli, HUD and the FBI have launched investigations into the city’s non-profit agency – New Orleans Affordable Home Ownership – and the home remediation program that ran from December 2006 to July 2007.

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Lee Zurik talks to a homeowner who says his home was not gutted by NOAH.

In addition, Mayor Ray Nagin has asked the city’s Office of Recovery to look into the matter, according to Ceeon Quiett, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office.

The investigations follow a series of reports by Eyewitness News that raised questions about the program.

In two different sets of records, the second of which Nagin had deemed ‘accurate,’ and in a list the city used to give out almost $2 million in recovery money, Eyewitness News found many properties that didn’t exist, and some properties where homeowners said their homes weren’t cleaned up, even though the city’s records show contractors were paid for the service.

In an interview conducted Tuesday, City Council President Jackie Clarkson said she just wants to get the truth told.

“I hope and pray for all of our sake that it is bad record keeping,” she said. “I was hoping it wasn’t that bad, but we need to know and deal with what has to happen.”

The city inspector general did not return several calls by Eyewitness News and U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said that he couldn’t confirm or deny an investigation.