The FBI arrested two Federal Emergency Management Agency employees Friday after each accepted $10,000 in cash kickbacks from a food services contractor, the U.S. Attorney said.

The contractor, who was not immediately identified, notified the government of attempts to bribe him soon after he arrived at a FEMA camp in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans.

U.S. Atty. Jim Letten said the suspects – identified as Andrew Rose and Loyd Hollman, both of Colorado – took the contractor into a locked room to discuss how they could artificially inflate the head count of FEMA workers taking meals at the camp, which would increase the contractor’s revenue. They allegedly told the contractor they would need $20,000 in kickbacks to inflate the figures.

Federal agents used electronic surveillance and have Rose and Hollman on tape talking about the alleged scheme, Letten said.