FEMA Chief Says Agency Didn't Know About Whitefish Contract
- Montana firm won no-bid, $300 million award for Puerto Rico
- Contract canceled amid criticism from Congress, others
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The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency testified Tuesday that his agency didn’t know about a $300 million no-bid contract to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electrical grid until after it was awarded, and likely wouldn’t have approved it.
"We were notified several weeks after the fact" that Puerto Rico’s power authority had an agreement with Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, FEMA administrator Brock Long told members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Tuesday. "There’s no lawyer inside FEMA that would have ever agreed to the language that was in that contract."