In this unflinching episode, we confront a decades-old injustice wrapped in floodwaters, federal dollars, and a falsely accused man—James Scott, who has spent over 31 years in prison for allegedly sabotaging a levee in West Quincy, Missouri, during the catastrophic flood of 1993.

📌 Record shows Missouri received from $300 million to over $1.2 billion in FEMA funds following the disaster—but only because the levee break was classified as vandalism, not a natural event.
📌 The total flood damage exceeded $15 billion across the Midwest, yet Missouri’s claim rested on pinning the break on one man instead of failing infrastructure.
📌 James Scott became the scapegoat—convicted under questionable jurisdiction for an act on federal land along the Missouri River.
📌 Engineering experts and Corps of Engineers insiders had long warned of structural weakness in the levee. But when billions were on the line, truth became expendable.
📌 Even worse: despite a 1994 law reducing life sentences to 30 years, James Scott remains unparoled, still serving a 50-year sentence—with no justifiable reason under current law.

This is more than a miscarriage of justice. It’s a case of government fraud, federal fund exploitation, and the sacrifice of a man’s life to cover political and bureaucratic failures.

This is not just about one man—it’s about a nation’s silence bought with FEMA disaster relief money.