BREAKING: "Arrests underway in connection with Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds fraud."

(NOTE: I don't speak the language. Relying on someone else for the news and translation.)

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JoseQuinonesPR:

The Federal authorities this morning are executing
several arrest warrants in relation to an alleged fraud
scheme involving stolen Federal disaster recovery funds
after Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.

The arrests, some in Puerto Rico and some in the US
mainland, are being led by the Office of the Inspector
General of the Department of Homeland Security, with the
assistance of the FBI.

The Chief Federal Prosecutor in Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia
Rodríguez, will offer more details in a press conference
this morning at 11 AM. (Stay tuned and I will offer
updates.)

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UPDATE 11 AM - The arrests announced so far include
leaders in FEMA, who were illegally steering contracts of
over $1.8 BILLION in electrical restoration funds to
friends.

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UPDATE 11:15 AM: Everyone arrested today was from
outside. The regional leader of FEMA New York district,
Asha Tribble, who had an inappropriate relationship with
the head of Cobra Energy, a Mr. Patterson (and steered
him contracts to fix electrical lines). Also a lawyer for
Cobra named Bridget Moore. Plop. This is no fun at all. I
was hoping to see local politicians in handcuffs. Maybe
later?

+++ UPDATE 11:40 AM: Press conference over. Turn off the
red flashing sign. Only outsiders got arrested. This is
bush league. My only hope is that they arrested the
outsiders first so they could shake some bushes to flush
out their contacts here and also avoid cries of
raaaaaaacissssss. Damn, I wanted to see Yulín in an
orange jumpsuit so bad, along with Rosselló.

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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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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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