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.
"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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Lucy! You got some Splanin to do....
Corruption in a latin american govenment? That’s unpossible!
Zomming around in your Blackhawks..! By Allah the Most Might and Merciful we WILL bring one down..!!!
(Mohammed Farah Aidid)
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.
Ah yes, banana republic time.
Check on that lunatic mayor! Screaming that they can’t get food & water while standing in front of pallets full of food & water!
I thought DJT was withholding the aid and killing the residents.
It’s genocide I tell ya!
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.
This is news?
Help us. We’re dying.
FBI looking into reports that demonicRAT Puerto Rican politicians withholding hurricane aid.
There. Fixed it.
Puerto Rico can only fulfill its destiny as a sovereign state.
Just doing what leftists do. Dont This just make you want to let them into our union of states?
Turn it into a penal colony. No minimum wage. Problem solved.
the democRATic way
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.
All Communists are Black Marketeers. Always.
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