NEW: Puerto Rico's lead federal prosecutor says 3 people have been arrested as part of a federal probe into an alleged fraud scheme involving former FEMA officials and hurricane relief funds.
, an Oklahoma-based energy company operating in Puerto Rico as the main contractor for the island's power authority as it sought to restore and rebuild the electrical grid destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.Tribble, Patterson and Ellison had come to Puerto Rico in October 2017 as part of the federal government's hurricane recovery efforts, specifically to restore the U.S. territory’s electric power grid. Its destruction had caused the world's second longest blackout.
It's not clear how much of that total the energy services company billed to the Puerto Rico power authority or how much hurricane relief funds might have been used. However, the work performed under both COBRA contracts was expected to be paid through the Puerto Rico power authority with federal funds from FEMA.
Rodríguez described an instance in which Tribble allegedly pressured senior executives at the Puerto Rico power authority to use COBRA employees, instead of the authority's employees, to fix an electrical substation in San Juan that had exploded in Feb. 2018.
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