AP EXCLUSIVE: Big contracts, no storm tarps for Puerto Rico
Source: Associated Press
By TAMI ABDOLLAH and MICHAEL BIESECKER
46 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs.
Bronze Star LLC never delivered those urgently needed supplies, which even months later remain in demand by hurricane victims on the island, .
FEMA eventually terminated the contracts, without paying any money, and re-started the process this month to supply more tarps for the island. The earlier effort took nearly four weeks from the day FEMA awarded the contracts to Bronze Star and the day it canceled them.
Thousands of Puerto Ricans remain homeless, and many complain that the federal government is taking too long to install tarps. The U.S. territory has been hit by severe rainstorms in recent weeks that have caused widespread flooding.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/cbeff1a939324610b7a02b88f30eafbb/AP-EXCLUSIVE:-Big-contracts,-no-storm-tarps-for-Puerto-Rico?
groundloop
(11,488 posts)How could they possibly know that a company with zero experience might possibly prove to be unreliable?
questionseverything
(9,631 posts)like deliberately denying needed supplies
it shouldn't take much knowledge or experience to buy and ship tarps and plastic
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)Let's relocate the Puerto Ricans to areas in Florida where Trump owns property. Say for example Mar-A-Lago and other nice places. Then let's give Puerto Rico (the entire island) to Trump. He can have it free, but he has to live on the island and use his own money to fix it up. I'll bet he'd take it in a heartbeat. And we'd be rid of him for good.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)mgardener
(1,799 posts)Do Americans not care?
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)for example, the House Oversight Committee... which is chaired by this guy -
'Nuff said.
What are Americans supposed to do? last I checked I did not have the authority to start firing FEMA heads. What you should be asking is why Congress is not holding FEMA accountable.