The day Brad Pitt truly became mayor

The day they sue your questionable non-profit that puts flood victims into shitty housing, that's the day you know you've arrived in local politics.

A lawsuit has been filed in New Orleans, accusing Brad Pitt and his Make It Right Foundation of building "substandard" Lower 9th Ward homes post-Katrina "that are deteriorating at a rapid pace while the homeowners are stuck with mortgages on properties that have diminished values," according to an NBC News report.

The class-action lawsuit, which was filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court, accuses the foundation of unfair trade practices, breach of contract and fraud, the report said.

A key piece of the complaint is that the foundation allegedly found issues with building materials and the homes’ designs. The problems, the suit says, needed significant repair, but Make It Right didn't tell homeowners.

Pitt doesn't even live here anymore. People were still pushing this as recently as 2009 somehow. Not all of them were joking.


 
Sure a lot of that was just about selling shitty T-shirts. But all in all it's a less harmful scam than Make It Right.