A former top official in the Federal Emergency Management Agency was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly taking bribes from the head of a company who received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to repair Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.
Ahsha Tribble, a deputy regional administrator, another former FEMA official, Jovanda Patterson, and Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of COBRA Acquisitions, were charged in a 15-count indictment.
Patterson, Tribble’s deputy chief of staff, steered contracts to COBRA and left FEMA in July 2018 for a job at the energy company, the court documents say.
“These defendants were supposed to come to Puerto Rico to help during the recovery after the devastation suffered from Hurricane Maria. Instead, they decided to take advantage of the precarious conditions of our electric power grid and engaged in a bribery and honest services wire fraud scheme in order to enrich themselves illegally,” Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, the US attorney in Puerto Rico, said in a statement.
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I hope she took home a significant proportion of the total cost for the repair of the power grid. Otherwise it will just be a serious waste of career.
And Trump's the BAD GUY ???????
Her and the mayor should be put to death! They watched thousands suffer, and many deaths while they lavished, stole, and then blamed the Trump administration. As a deterrent for corruption we should bring back the chain gang prison sentence for elected or government employed corrupt officials.
So Trump was right? What say you libtards?
We all knew that was a sham
No $hit. I would have never dreamed by the looks of her.
tHEY should be made to go over there and clean up
everything until it's back to normal.
So disgusting !!!!
Northwest Woodsman: another high level corrupt political class crook. Just can’t resist stealing other people’s money. This one is a high functioning member of my 85% club.
Puerto Rico is a US territory. The crime was committed in and against Puerto Rico. She should go to a Puerto Rican prison.
Libtards feel their entitled.
They're not really guilty. They're with the Deep State of Traitors.
This was on Trumps watch
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