They just continue to abuse their power and are never held accountable.

So disheartening.

The blood of Puerto Ricans who died due to lack of electricity are on his kleptocratic hands.

RICO RICO RICO Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

dolts who contributed and voted for trump. Do they get a place at the trough or just empty promises?

How much you getting from these people next time around Trump?? Nothing but middle men to point the electric utility on PR to the problem and say go fix that. This is No different than an Oil company like Halliburton getting contracts to build military housing and prisons in Iraq. BILLIONS of $$$ in tax payer money handed out to make rich men richer.

There needs to be one HELL of an investigation into this graft.

able to do the job adequately. Those poor people. They voted overwhelmingly Democratic and against Rump and so don't deserve this. All of us who didn't vote the Democratic ticket own all this. What a shame they can't share the misery.

Well, as this miserable and despicable handling drags out toward 2018, perhaps at least some of it will penetrate the right wing news bubble, and maybe even shame some of those culpable on the left.

And thousands are now relocating to Florida.
Louisiana was a leaning Democratic State until Katrina caused the permanent relocation of thousands of mainly minority voters from New Olreans to Texas. This same effect may lock in Florida to the Dem column.

There should be hell to pay for this.

"This for that" (something for something), the very definition of political corruption.

On Monday, The Washington Post reported that Whitefish Chief Executive Officer Andy
Techmanski is friends with Trump administration Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Moreover,
Whitefish is located in Zinke’s hometown of Whitefish, Monatana.


*****

2 employees?

have no check on this kind of corruption?

We can blame trump and his comrades as much as we want. But it's clear that our system has too few checks on abuse.

Puerto Rico AGREED to hired this 3-man company?!?

What do they mean by "Puerto Rico"? Who did this? The Governor of PR?

What could possibly go wrong (or right).

Here's an article from WP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.e3476ed3d72a

"PREPA’s executive director, Ricardo Ramos, and a spokesman did not respond to emails asking why the utility didn’t activate the mutual-aid network. On a tour of the idled Palo Seco power plant, Ramos told reporters that Whitefish was the first company “available to arrive and they were the ones that first accepted terms and conditions for PREPA.”

Ramos said that the utility is “completely content” with the work Whitefish is doing. “The doubts that have been raised about Whitefish, from my point of view, are completely unfounded,” he added, saying that concerns about Whitefish were probably spread by jealous competitors.

Whitefish officials have said that the company’s expertise in mountainous areas makes it well suited for the work and that it jumped at the chance when other firms were hesitating over concerns about payment."

I read elsewhere that one contender asked for $25 Million up front. That seems reasonable considering the scope of the project, but that may have been a road block for PREPA.

why hire the best company for the job at the best price when you can just give sweetheart deals to your cronies? After all, it's the taxpayers' money, not Trump's.

I saw the article in the Flathead Beacon about the award of the contract, but there was no mention of who was behind it. Now I get it.

Cheney's Halliburton got just numbers of contracts from the Federal Government and the military for projects in Iraq, many of them contracts they never even had to compete for. And the Republican-controlled Congress never said a word. Halliburton's stock--of which Cheney had 200,000 $1 per share options at $19--went from $19 to $87 in a very short time, and SOMEBODY had to pay for the upkeep on his house on Kish. Anyone know how much is 200,000 X ($87-19-1)? Try $13,400,000. And that's just this one transaction.

Trump saw Cheney never had to answer for his corruption, so he figures (probably correctly) that he won't, either. Trump is right about one thing: he could shoot someone dead on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and he wouldn't lose a vote. I would add to that--he wouldn't lose a day of freedom, either, as long as Sessions is Attorney General. Sessions would probably have the guy Trump murdered charged posthumously for assault, and then suspend the sentence, provided the guy didn't rise from his grave.

Hat tip, edhopper: WP; Small Montana firm lands Puerto Ricos biggest contract to get the power back on

A House Committee with oversight of PR bankruptcy says it is concerned about deal. Lawmakers may be more concerned when they price tag:

Link to tweet

for the people.

but I fear the why. They are bought and complicit with exceptions like Rachael and Lawrence. Is there not a law which makes it illegal to use the public airwaves against the good of the country.

By selecting what is probably the most ill-equipped company in the country shows how abhorrent 45 really is to find the least qualified for this massive project (2 people TOTAL, really??) and PR is on the hook for $300M. Hopefully another company can step up to prevent this travesty.

Halliburton/KBR redux.

From the WaPo article:

Only two full-time employees? Big Trump donor? Can we hurry up and march the deranged orange clown off to the guardhouse soon? People are dying and the U.S. is being ravaged and pillaged! Hurry up Congress!

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

The question is why.

https://weather.com/news/news/puerto-rico-power-whitefish-0

couldn't they at least PRETEND to do the correct thing?