In addition to the agency's regional administrator and her deputy, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions, which got a $1.8 billion contract to restore power on the island, was charged.— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) September 10, 2019
According to the indictment, Cobra's president provided FEMA's regional administrator with personal helicopter use, hotel accommodations, airfare, personal security services, and the use of a credit card in exchange for influence to receive power restoration work.— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) September 10, 2019
Mammoth Energy Services, the parent company of Cobra, received a no-bid contract for the work, even though it was a fracking company from Oklahoma that had only been in the power restoration business for a few months. https://t.co/qUiBe3SuTo— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) September 10, 2019
