Thread: Trump Admin Corruption Scandal: Whitefish

The FBI has opened a preliminary inquiry into the $300 million Whitefish Energy Holdings contract secured by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, according to a source with knowledge of the inquiry.

The energy firm was contracted to rebuild the damaged electrical grid that was destroyed by hurricanes that struck the island. The Wall Street Journal was first to report the existence of the FBI probe.
If the FBI's preliminary inquiry develops into a full investigation of the contract, it would join several other reviews of the contract already underway.


It wasn't immediately clear what about the deal the FBI would be investigating. But members of Congress have raised concerns over the manner in which the contract for essential work to rebuild the island's decimated grid was awarded to the small Montana company. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has also raised concerns over whether the amount of the contract awarded was reasonable.
The company also has ties to the Trump administration. The company is based in and named after the small hometown of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and the CEO is an acquaintance of the secretary. An investment firm that owns a major stake in the company is run by a donor to Trump's presidential campaign.

Source: FBI opens inquiry into Whitefish's Puerto Rico contract - CNNPolitics

Wait, what?

Another scandal involving the most morally bereft and ethically corrupt political administration in the western world today??

I can scarcely believe it.

After reading the details of what Whitefish has claimed in the contract for wages (astronomical sums!) and that there was no bidding, and that the company has only two employees, I would say Zinke is going down.

Some pretty fancy wording in the contract to.

The Sundays barely touched this.

Obviously PREPA has some questions to answer, but it may simply be a case of some rich PREPA senior managers trying to line their own pockets.

The big question of course is how did they happen to negotiate such a ludicrous pile of pork with a two-person company whose owner just happened to come from the same small town as (and employ the son of) the Secretary of the Interior?