Archived WHOA! The FBI raided the offices of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico this morning (twitchy.com)
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Archived WHOA! The FBI raided the offices of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico this morning (twitchy.com)
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[–] pppkkppp 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yeah. Quite the history too.
The original goal was to try to use the cleanup money to boost the economy. But the Local prime contractor just vacuumed up all the money he could and laundered it. That guy got the boot and now the prime contractor is an off island outfit. They still make sure all the people doing the actual work are locals though because they still want the money to go to the local economy. It's just that the local business owners couldn't manage it without being greedy. They wern't trying to build a future. They were just taking what they could while they could. Now there are a handful of sub contractors that have a reputation for treating their employees with respect and expecting actual work from them.
[–] kaarno [S] ago
I'm thinking there is more to it than this. If this was the case the FBI would raid every municipality.
[–] pppkkppp 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Oh, for sure there is more to it. I only know about one little slice. I assume everybody on every level operates with the "take what you can take when you can take it" mentality. When everybody operates like that then it all piles up and cripples the place. I'm sure you have politicians taking kickbacks out of the cleanup money to avoid prosecuting the corrupt guys and all that sort of stuff. That's just beyond what I have been exposed to.