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2020-01-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Chaos in Puerto Rico as mob finds unused disaster supplies
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Posted by Fred 2020-01-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top

#1 Maria, you got some 'splaining to do!
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-20 01:13||   2020-01-20 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 The discovery prompted Gov. Wanda Vazquez to fire the island’s director of emergency management, Carlos Acevedo, and to order a full investigation into the matter.

...I've seen this movie.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-20 02:20||   2020-01-20 02:20|| Front Page Top

#3 So it's not even corruption?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-20 02:48||   2020-01-20 02:48|| Front Page Top

#4 It's deep corruption. The warehouse belonged to a Puerto Rican government owned import-export company.

US taxpayers filled it. It will be shown Puerto Rican government officials were selling the contents and pocketing the money. There will be many like it. A lot of the $90 billion for the 2017 hurricane disappeared like the aid into that warehouse.
Posted by Graiter Grasing8630 2020-01-20 03:16||   2020-01-20 03:16|| Front Page Top

#5 It goes a LOT higher up in the PR food chain than her, SteveS.

She may not have even been in the loop.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-20 08:12||   2020-01-20 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Of course, Trump called it-- YEARS ago. He was pilloried for it (RACIST!! BULLY!!).

But he was right.

The FBI has arrested two former Puerto Rico officials for funneling disaster aid payments to politically connected contractors.
The Wednesday arrests have prompted concern on Capitol Hill that the island’s corruption will blunt the effectiveness of a recently passed disaster aid bill. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., has called for Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's resignation, according to the Washington Post.

The FBI indictment charges Puerto Rico's former Education Secretary Julia Keleher, former Health Insurance Agency Chief Ángela Ávila-Marrero, and four others with crimes related to grifting U.S. disaster aid. Keleher and Ávila-Marrero both served in Rosselló's administration before leaving in April and June, respectively. Rosselló himself is not under investigation. Grijalva is the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, which is overseeing the recovery effort on the island from Hurricane Maria in 2017. ...The arrests come weeks after Congress passed a $19 billion disaster aid bill to the island that is still struggling after the September 2017 hurricane severely damaged the island's infrastructure and power grid.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-20 08:32||   2020-01-20 08:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder how much they have sold already. For how much. And where the gains went.
Posted by gorb 2020-01-20 08:57||   2020-01-20 08:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Dear Alex Cora:

Now that you're no longer the manager of the Boston Red Sox because of your extensive involvement in sign-stealing over a one to two year period, you'll have plenty of time to apologize for being so horribly wrong on the whole Trump aid to your home country, right?
Posted by Raj 2020-01-20 09:22||   2020-01-20 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Pitbulls....it's just the breed.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-20 09:24||   2020-01-20 09:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Why do I smell Clintons in this?
Posted by AlanC 2020-01-20 09:46||   2020-01-20 09:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Reads like the Clinton relief effort in Haiti; the one where the Clintons relieved Haiti of their aid funds. Dem playbook.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-20 10:16||   2020-01-20 10:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Picture over at Rantingly, the warehouse is right next door to a "government office." Uh-oh...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-20 10:58||   2020-01-20 10:58|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-20 11:39||   2020-01-20 11:39|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ foxes' den (L)... chicken coop (R)
Posted by Lex 2020-01-20 11:58||   2020-01-20 11:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Bingo, #11 JQC!
Posted by Barbara 2020-01-20 12:27||   2020-01-20 12:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Re. #11, Didn't that Kazakh uranium-scamming Clinton donor Frank Giustra give the Clinton Global Grifters $20 million for a "Haiti Development Fund"?

IIRC, the "fund" never made any investments. Also, the Mexican global grifter/oligarch (and major NYTimes shareholder) Carlos Slim was also in on the Haiti grift.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-20 13:57||   2020-01-20 13:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Ahh, yes. The Clintons and Haiti
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-20 16:03||   2020-01-20 16:03|| Front Page Top

#18 U.N. chief names Bill Clinton special Haiti envoy


Former Haitian Senate President Calls Clintons "Common Thieves Who Should Be In Jail"
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-20 21:42||   2020-01-20 21:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-20 21:43||   2020-01-20 21:43|| Front Page Top

#20 Haiti Needs $2 Billion the Clinton Foundation Stole From Its Relief Funds
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-20 21:44||   2020-01-20 21:44|| Front Page Top

#21 Whew! You are cooking with gas today, Skidmark!
Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-20 23:23||   2020-01-20 23:23|| Front Page Top

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