They are documents Eyewitness News had to file suit to obtain, and a review of the stack of invoices given to the city by New Orleans Affordable Homeownership raises more questions about the non-profit city agency.

The invoice for work done on Doris Grandpre’s home is one example.

Grandpre says she received some free help from NOAH to spruce up her home, before Hurricane Katrina.

“During the Morial administration, they did the roof and painted,” Grandpre said.

But after Katrina, Grandpre says she never contacted NOAH for assistance from the home remediation program.  She said an Episcopal church group from Boston gutted her house after the storm.

But according to invoices obtained by Eyewitness News from the Nagin administration, contractor Hall Enterprises billed the city and NOAH not once, but twice, to gut and board up Grandpre's home.  The two invoices have different dates and different invoice numbers, but the same cost to gut, board up and cut the grass on her St. Anthony Street property.

“They didn't do any of that.  They didn't board it up.  They didn't do nothing,” said Grandpre.  “The house is still not boarded up.”

On Willow Street, another contractor, Parish-Dubuclet, billed the city twice to gut, board up and cut the grass at a house.  Once again, the invoices have different dates, different numbers and even a different price.  They total more than $8,000 worth of work billed to the city and the federal government.  According to a neighbor that work may not have happened.

“My neighbor paid someone to gut her house for her,” said the neighbor.  When asked if he was sure, the neighbor told WWL-TV that he “spoke to her and she personally told me.”

By telephone, the owner of the Willow Street house confirmed to WWL that she paid a contractor, and didn't call NOAH to clean up her home.

The analysis by WWL-TV shows the 605 invoices produced a total of 36 of these double billings.  Also it is important to note that the home remediation program cleaned up storm-damaged homes, but 16 of the invoices were not for remediation work.  In these cases, contractors charged the city to repair a roof or even paint some homes.

One invoice from Myers and Sons Enterprises from the spring of 2007 charged the city $6,516 to paint an entire house on Neil Avenue.  After some other repairs to the home, the total charge to the city approached $9,417.20.

When reached by telephone, the owner confirmed to Eyewitness News that a city contractor did not paint the brick house on Neil Avenue in Algiers.

The invoices, as with other lists provided by NOAH and the Nagin administration, included a handful of properties that didn't exist.  A few of the nonexistent addresses even have a "PAID" stamp on the invoice.

Another invoice by contractor Parish-Dubuclet lists cleanup work done at a home at 1337 Governor Nicholls Street.  But when a WWL crew went to that block, they could not find the address.  The street ended at 1335 Governor Nicholls.  Further, just two buildings down from where 1337 should be is a fiveplex owned by NOAH.

WWL-TV’s first report on the home remediation program four weeks ago included a home on General Taylor Street, owned by a city employee named Clourth Wilson.  In an interview, he said NOAH never touched his home. 

Wilson's property was not on the next list provided to WWL-TV by the Nagin administration, but according to an undated invoice, a contractor billed the city almost $4,500 to clean up the house.

City officials confirm NOAH spent $1.8 million during the home remediation program, which lasted about 6 months.  But the invoices given to WWL-TV by the city only total about $1.3 million.

For Hall Enterprises, the highest-paid contractor in the NOAH program, invoices total about $150,000.  That's almost $200,000 less than the city claims owner Richard Hall earned; a figure Hall confirmed in a phone interview three weeks ago.

“I know for 2007, I filed my taxes….$271,000 I want to say, something up in there,” Hall said.

He said $271,000 paid to him in 2007, and three more checks written in 2008, gave him a grand total above $300,000. 

So where are the invoices for the rest of his work?  And when you subtract duplicates, why does the city only have invoices for 555 unique properties; about 300 less than NOAH claimed to remediate?

Those are questions the FBI and U.S. Attorney may begin asking this Thursday, when the NOAH invoices and records from many of the contractors are supposed to be delivered to the federal courthouse at 9:00 a.m.

Officials with the Nagin administration contacted WWL-TV’s attorney Monday afternoon to say they think they have a few more documents or invoices to hand over.  They expect to produce them Tuesday.