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Trump Administration Officials Arrested for Scamming Puerto Rico Out of $1.8 Billion in Hurricane Relief Funds
Remember when Trump blasted Puerto Rico’s government for their corruption and thievery, explaining that he was the best thing that ever happened to that foreign country whose president’s name he couldn’t quite remember? Well, it turned out, it was his own people who were actually doing the scamming. A federal grand jury indicted two former…
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‘Is the President Aware That Taking the Knee Is About Police-Involved Shootings?’
April Ryan, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Clash Again Inquirer Rebukes Trump for Disinviting Eagles Pittsburgh Paper Spikes 6 of Staffer’s Cartoons Where Murder Is Common but Arrests Are Rare Does Video Reflect Cops’ True Character? On Puerto Rico: ‘Their Story Deserves to Be Told’ How Bobby Kennedy Got an Education on Race Earl Morgan, Jersey Journal…
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New Art-School Grad Has Already Landed New Yorker Cover
Loveis Wise Is in Rare Company Seeing No Diversity, Philly Papers Drop Ad Agency Harold Jackson Leaving Philadelphia for Houston Report on Massive Puerto Rico Toll Overshadowed Outrage Builds on Separation of Families Spanish Again the Most Polarizing Language in U.S. ‘We . . . Got the George Takei Assault Wrong’ ‘Asian American’ at 50:…
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Tiffany Brown, Head of the 1-Woman Company That Delivered Only 50,000 of 30 Million Meals to Puerto Rico, Blames FEMA
An Atlanta woman whose one-person company was contracted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide millions of meals to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, but delivered only a fraction of that, says that FEMA is to blame. Tiffany Brown, who is listed as the only employee of Tribute Contracting LLC, last…
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Can a Company Be a Messy Bitch? Whitefish Stopped Work in Puerto Rico Over $83,000,000 It’s Apparently Owed
It’s been two months since the people of Puerto Rico have had fully functioning power. However, Whitefish Energy Holdings, the small Montana firm that was supposed to be helping restore electricity to the island’s devastated power grid, has now decided to stop all work because Puerto Rico’s government has not paid crews as part of…
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1 Fish, 2 Fish, No More Whitefish: Puerto Rico Cancels Controversial Energy Contract
The Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority, amid mounting controversy surrounding its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy, has decided to cancel the deal. As CBS News reports, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced early Sunday that he wanted the no-bid contract with the small, 2-year old Montana company to be canceled “immediately.” The governor’s decision…
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The Crisis in Puerto Rico Is a Racial Issue. Here’s Why
Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and asked if he thought President Donald Trump’s punishing response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico had something to do with “race or ethnicity.” Sanders hesitated a bit but ultimately said, “We have a right to be suspect.” The relative surge in coverage about Puerto Rico after…
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FEMA Officials Say It’s Not Their Job to Distribute Food and Water to Hurricane Victims in Puerto Rico: Report
Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Maria brought devastation to the island of Puerto Rico, people in the town of Aibonito still have not received any food or water from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The reason? FEMA said it’s not their job to distribute food and water to the hurricane victims. Aibonito is located about…
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San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Trump: He Minimized Our Suffering and Was ‘Insulting to the People of Puerto Rico’
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz has been having a tough couple of weeks, to say the least. Not only has she been dealing with the devastation after Hurricane Maria left some 3.4 million people on the island of Puerto Rico struggling to survive, but she’s had to play nice to the dumbass…