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Puerto Rican Secretary Of State Blows Whistle On Hurricane Relief Fraud
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Yes indeed, the screaming that the US s to blame for Puerto Rico's hurricane woes may have
been a way of averting attention from one of the regular acts of corruption on the island.
A corruption most vulgar, they hid the supplies.
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Quote:2 more Puerto Rico officials fired after warehouse break-in.

'SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gov. Wanda Vázquez fired the heads of Puerto Rico’s housing and family
departments Sunday in the latest fallout over the discovery of a warehouse filled with emergency supplies
dating from Hurricane Maria.

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The removal of Housing Secretary Fernando Gil and Department of Family Secretary Glorimar Andújar came
a day after the governor fired the director of Puerto Rico’s emergency management agency.

Vázquez fired him hours after a Facebook video showed angry people breaking into the warehouse in an area
where thousands have been in shelters since a recent earthquake.
“There have been actions by government officials that have been completely unacceptable,” the governor said
Sunday.

Vázquez said she decided on the additional firings after meeting with leaders of her administration Sunday
morning and officials were unable to provide information she requested about other collection and distribution
centers.

“They weren’t able to personally tell me specifically where these centers were located, what they contained and
whether an inventory was completed,” she said. Vázquez did not elaborate on why Gil and Andújar were singled
out, saying only that she had lost confidence in them.

Anger erupted in Puerto Rico on Saturday after an online blogger posted a live video of the warehouse in the
southern coastal city of Ponce filled with water bottles, cots, baby food and other basic supplies that had apparently
been sitting there since Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. territory in September 2017.

The blogger, Lorenzo Delgado, said he had received a tip about the warehouse but did not specify when.
A group of people broke into the warehouse and began distributing supplies to those affected by the recent 6.4
magnitude quake that killed one person and caused damage across Puerto Rico’s southern region.
More than 7,000 people remain in shelters as strong aftershocks continue.

Ponce Mayor María Meléndez said she was outraged, noting that she and other mayors were trying to find basic
supplies since the quake. “I spent several days requesting cots and water,” she said. “They sent me to Cabo Rojo
for the cots and to San Juan for the water. If I had known that those supplies were there, I would have demanded
that they be taken out immediately. ”

When asked how it was possible that she did not know about the existence of the warehouse, Vázquez replied,
“That’s what the head of agencies are for ... to inform the governor.”

Vázquez said she worried that the warehouse discovery and the fallout would affect the credibility of the territorial
government in Washington, which has temporarily retained some federal funds for Maria relief amid concerns of
corruption and mismanagement...'
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RE: Puerto Rican Secretary Of State Blows Whistle On Hurricane Relief Fraud - by BIAD - 01-20-2020, 01:58 PM

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