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September 17, 2019 By cs

FEMA officials charged with bribery over Puerto Rico power contracts

A 15-count federal indictment accuses two former FEMA officials and a contractor with bribery, fraud and other offenses related to disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.

A former top Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official, her aide, and the former president of an energy company were indicted and arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to direct billions of dollars in disaster aid to the company for electricity restoration in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Ahsha Tribble, who until recently was FEMA’s Region II deputy regional administrator and led the agency’s efforts to restore power to the devastated island, is accused of accepting a variety of bribes from Donald Ellison, former president of Cobra Acquisitions, LLC, a subsidiary of Mammoth Energy Services, in exchange for pressuring officials at FEMA and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to improperly assign projects to Cobra.

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Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: bribe, bribery, FEMA, indictment, Puerto Rico

November 7, 2017 By AMK

Federal probe into Puerto Rico power scandal expands

A second federal contract with a company hired to rebuild Puerto Rico’s all but collapsed power grid is coming under scrutiny, drawing the attention of federal investigators and even members of Congress even as most of the hurricane-ravaged island remains without power.

The news of a second faulty contract is also raising questions about the contracting process for the island’s government-owned power company, the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority (PREPA).

Puerto Rico’s crumbling, aging electrical grid was at the heart of the island’s crippling debt and infrastructure problems even before Hurricanes Irma and Maria slammed into it over a month ago. But now, in the wake of recent scandals over contractors hired to fix that very grid, some experts expect the timeline for full recovery to last well into next year.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2017/11/federal-probe-puerto-rico-power-scandal-expands/142268/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: DHS, disaster recovery, FEMA, PREPA, Puerto Rico, scandal

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