FBI/FEMA/PUERTO RICO: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a decision by Puerto Rico’s power authority to award a $300 million contract to a tiny Montana energy firm to rebuild electrical infrastructure damaged in Hurricane Maria, according to people familiar with the matter.
Agents from the FBI’s San Juan field office are looking into circumstances surrounding the deal that the public-power monopoly known as Prepa signed with Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, according to the people familiar with the matter.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló canceled the contract Sunday, saying it had become a distraction from the U.S. territory’s efforts to restore the devastated grid. Only 30% of the island’s power customers have had electricity restored.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, multiple congressional committees and local auditors also have raised concerns and begun requesting documents about the deal…
A spokesman for the FBI field office couldn’t be reached.”
-Andrew Scurria, “FBI Is Probing Puerto Rico Power Contract,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 30, 2017 02:27pm