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JUST IN: The FEMA official who oversaw the reconstruction of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid after Hurricane Maria in 2017 has been arrested in connection with fraud and conspiracy charges.
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.
Among the charges are conspiracy to commit bribery against a public officer, making false statements and fraud with recovery funds.
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.
The island went 11 months until power was fully restored -- the largest blackout in U.S. history.
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.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Here's a link to the indictment:
justice.gov/usao-pr/pr/fem…
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