Former FEMA Official Accused of Taking Bribes in Hurricane Maria Recovery [View all]
Source: New York Times
Former FEMA Official Accused of Taking Bribes in Hurricane Maria Recovery
By Patricia Mazzei and Frances Robles
Sept. 10, 2019 Updated 12:50 p.m. ET
MIAMI -- A former top administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was arrested on Tuesday in a major federal corruption investigation that found that the official took bribes from the president of a company that secured $1.8 billion in federal contracts to repair Puerto Rico's shredded electrical grid after Hurricane Maria.
Federal authorities arrested Ahsha Tribble, FEMA's former deputy administrator for the region that includes Puerto Rico, and Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions, prosecutors in Puerto Rico announced. They were accused of conspiring to defraud the federal government, among other charges.
A second FEMA employee, Jovanda R. Patterson, who worked as a deputy chief of staff in Puerto Rico under Ms. Tribble and was later hired by Cobra, was also arrested, said Rosa Emilia Rodrguez Vlez, the United States attorney for Puerto Rico.
Ms. Tribble and Mr. Ellison had a "close personal relationship," Ms. Rodrguez Vlez said, in which Mr. Ellison lavished Ms. Tribble with gifts in exchange for her to use her influence inside FEMA to give Cobra an advantage.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/puerto-rico-fema-arrests-corruption.html
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JUST IN: The FEMA official who oversaw the reconstruction of Puerto Rico's electrical grid after Hurricane Maria in 2017 has been arrested in connection with fraud and conspiracy charges.
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