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FBI looking into reports that Puerto Rican politicians withholding hurricane aid
American Thinker ^ | 10/13/17 | Rick Moran

Posted on 10/13/2017 6:47:33 PM PDT by markomalley

The FBI in Puerto Rico is looking into numerous reports that politicians in some areas are withholding hurricane relief from residents who need it and giving it to cronies and supporters.

Daily Caller:

"People call us and tell us some misappropriation of some goods and supplies by supposedly politicians, not necessarily mayors, but people that work for the mayors in certain towns," FBI Special Agent Carlos Osorio told The Daily Caller Wednesday.

Osorio explained, "They're supposedly withholding these goods and these supplies and instead of handing them out to people who really need them, [there are claims] that [local officials] are assigning them to their buddies first – people that have voted for them or people that contributed to their campaigns or what not."

He added, "So what we're doing is looking into these allegations. That I can tell you is happening. Again, I cannot say that we have any ongoing investigation. We're just corroborating these allegations."

According to Osorio, there are claims that despite delivery of hurricane relief by FEMA, assisted by other federal officials like the FBI to town centers, for example, local officials will first distribute the relief to their political allies once federal officials leave the area.

"We'll distribute the [goods and supplies] because we have to follow certain protocols, and that's what [local officials] said they were doing, when they were waiting for federal officials to leave, and the allegations are they are handing [relief] out through back doors and stuff like that to their buddies," Osorio stated.


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Of course, no reasonable prosecutor would take the case because the politicians didn't intend to withhold aid.
1 posted on 10/13/2017 6:47:33 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Lucy! You got some Splanin to do....


2 posted on 10/13/2017 6:48:51 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Po Dunk)
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Corruption in a latin american govenment? That’s unpossible!


3 posted on 10/13/2017 6:50:48 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: markomalley
And I ALSO, you American Kuffar devils..!!

Zomming around in your Blackhawks..! By Allah the Most Might and Merciful we WILL bring one down..!!!

(Mohammed Farah Aidid)


4 posted on 10/13/2017 6:52:02 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: markomalley

We should just cut these yahoos loose and they can become an island version of a Latin American banana republic.

We’d sure save a lot of money and the other headaches that go with being responsible for PR.


5 posted on 10/13/2017 6:52:43 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: markomalley

Ah yes, banana republic time.


6 posted on 10/13/2017 6:53:54 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: markomalley

Check on that lunatic mayor! Screaming that they can’t get food & water while standing in front of pallets full of food & water!


7 posted on 10/13/2017 7:04:20 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: markomalley

I thought DJT was withholding the aid and killing the residents.


8 posted on 10/13/2017 7:24:38 PM PDT by umgud
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To: markomalley

It’s genocide I tell ya!


9 posted on 10/13/2017 7:27:49 PM PDT by Lent
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To: markomalley

Oh, I am sure all of us FReepers are shocked by this development. If PR were not so corrupt there would not be so much poverty there.


10 posted on 10/13/2017 7:29:16 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04
[there are claims] that [local officials] are assigning them to their buddies first – people that have voted for them or people that contributed to their campaigns or what not."

This is news?

11 posted on 10/13/2017 7:30:01 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: umgud

Help us. We’re dying.


12 posted on 10/13/2017 7:30:18 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: markomalley
FBI looking into reports that Puerto Rican politicians withholding hurricane aid

FBI looking into reports that demonicRAT Puerto Rican politicians withholding hurricane aid.

There. Fixed it.

13 posted on 10/13/2017 7:46:21 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: markomalley
Free Puerto Rico now.

Puerto Rico can only fulfill its destiny as a sovereign state.

14 posted on 10/13/2017 7:57:57 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Why is it no one ever discusses the rabid Amerophobia which infects Islam and its adherents?)
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To: markomalley

Just doing what leftists do. Don’t This just make you want to let them into our union of state’s?


15 posted on 10/13/2017 7:58:23 PM PDT by vpintheak (tFreedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: vpintheak

Turn it into a penal colony. No minimum wage. Problem solved.


16 posted on 10/13/2017 8:31:55 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: markomalley
The FBI in Puerto Rico is looking into numerous reports that politicians in some areas are withholding hurricane relief from residents who need it and giving it to cronies and supporters.

the democRATic way

17 posted on 10/13/2017 9:41:28 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: markomalley

Earlier reports posted here indicated it was the PR teamsters local union that was demanding (shake down) OT wages before hauling and was backed up by that Mayor of San Juan. Don’t hear anything about that now shows you how corrupt the medua is.


18 posted on 10/14/2017 4:18:19 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin (not related to poster))
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To: dsrtsage
I'm SHOCKED I tellya! Years ago I stopped dealing with PR eBay customers after about 1/2 the items I mailed there during a 6 month period "disappeared" in transit!
19 posted on 10/14/2017 5:47:16 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: markomalley

All Communists are Black Marketeers. Always.


20 posted on 10/14/2017 1:59:59 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Stay safe out there. The Haters™ are dangerous. Very dangerous.)
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