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Former top FEMA official busted for taking bribes after Hurricane Maria

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Posted by Frank G 2019-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Ahsha, Jovanda?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-11 01:14|| 2019-09-11 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Profiteering from catastrophe. There's even a baboon romance thrown in. Helicopter rides.... sheeeeit.

Talk about villainy.
"I will have those contracts now !"

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-11 01:24|| 2019-09-11 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 ~~Former top FEMA disaster recovery official~~ Weathergirl and two others are arrested after they took bribes from a company that secured $1.8 billion in federal contracts to repair Puerto Rico's damaged power grid after Hurricane Maria in 2017

Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-11 03:19|| 2019-09-11 03:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Ellison seems not to be quite the colourful Central Casting corruptocrat I was expecting. From NYT article: Mr. Ellison’s lawyer, William Leone, described his client as a former Army Ranger and a “decorated war hero” who had done tours in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Pic, too: "booties on the ground" (not like that, dammit!).

Posted by Unolutle Bumble7533 2019-09-11 04:06|| 2019-09-11 04:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Hell of a job, Brownie...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-11 07:30|| 2019-09-11 07:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Would I be right to guess that people more important than Tribble and Patterson intended the work to go to somebody else?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-11 07:46|| 2019-09-11 07:46|| Front Page Top

#7 More corruption.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-09-11 09:31|| 2019-09-11 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Would I be right to guess that people more important than Tribble and Patterson intended the work to go to somebody else?

As I recall the $1.8B contract was immediately cancelled after the Governor(?) was ~~outed~~ ~~recalled~~ resigned in shame. Not a lot of news about the next contractor.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-11 14:04|| 2019-09-11 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Ahhhhhh

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-11 14:08|| 2019-09-11 14:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Puerto Rico's New Governor Suspends Contract to Repair Power Grid

Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-11 17:15|| 2019-09-11 17:15|| Front Page Top

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