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FEMA Officers and Contractor Accused of Puerto Rico Disaster Fraud @KlasfeldReports FEMA Officers and Contractor Accused of Puerto Rico Disaster Fraud
After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s energy grid two years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency official in charge of reconstruction negotiated two contracts that ballooned to more...
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5:20 PM · Sep 10, 2019
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FEMA Officers and Contractor Accused of Puerto Rico Disaster Fraud

September 10, 2019

(CN) – After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s energy grid two years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency official in charge of reconstruction negotiated two contracts that ballooned to more than $1.8 billion with a Delaware-based energy company that had formed less than a year earlier.

Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday against the former president of Cobra Acquisitions LLC, and two then-FEMA officials, accusing the trio of an expansive bribery scheme involving first-class airfare, helicopter rides, luxury hotel rooms, casino gambling and a lucrative revolving door.

FEMA’s deputy regional manager Ahsha Nateef Tribble, who has been suspended in the wake of the corruption scandal, had been assigned the sector lead for power and infrastructure after the Category 5 storm laid waste to the commonwealth’s aging electric grid. She faces two-thirds of the charges contained in the 15-count, 48-page indictment secretly filed in Puerto Rico’s capital of San Juan on Sept. 3.
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