Out these crooks! Would this be NEWS!! if these crooks were democrats? Minority democrats?-----The $300 Million Contract Awarded to the Interior Secretary's Friend's Company Is Exempt from Government Audits - Hit & Run : Reason.com

The $300 Million Contract Awarded to the Interior Secretary's Friend's Company Is Exempt from Government Audits - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"The federal government has awarded a tiny Montana company a $300 million no-bid contract to repair Puerto Rico's hurricane-wrecked electrical grid.
The company, Whitefish Energy, has close ties to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
A copy of that contract leaked last night, and it seems to prohibit the federal government from auditing Whitefish's work and to shield other details of the company's efforts from being disclosed via open records laws.
"In no event," the contract says, will the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Comptroller General of the United States, "or any of their authorized representatives have the right to audit or review the cost and profit elements" of the deal.
The contract was posted online by Ken Klippenstein, a contributor to The Daily Beast, the first publication to report on the connections between the company and the secretary of the interior.
...Prior to landing the contract for repair work in Puerto Rico, Whitefish's largest project had been a $1.3 million deal to rebuild less than 5 miles of electrical lines in Arizona, The Washington Post reported this week.
By comparison, there are more than 2,400 miles of transmission lines and 30,000 of distribution electrical lines in Puerto Rico..."
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