Well, it turned out, it was his own people who were actually doing the scamming.
After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, the Trump administration sent JoJo to Puerto Rico to oversee the rebuilding of the island’s power sector and infrastructure, according to FEMA’s website which hasn’t been updated because Trump probably fired the only person who knows the Squarespace password.
And then Asha’s homegirl JoJo just up and left her good government job and went to work for COBRA.
And, because shady people don’t usually practice restraint, they doubled it again, until the contract reached $1.8 billion, the Associated Press reports.
The people of Puerto Rico probably wouldn’t have been bothered by this except for one reason:.
“These defendants were supposed to come to Puerto Rico to help during the recovery after the devastation suffered from Hurricane María,” said U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
“I’m going to have my lawyers look into whether this is actually illegal,” said Trump. »