Company with dubious $300 million no-bid contract to Puerto Rico just got a new no-bid contract
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Remember the Montana company with two employees that won a dubious $300 million no-bid contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s utility grid after Hurricane Maria? Whitefish Energy’s strange deal was very quickly put under a microscope, with calls for its cCompany with dubious $300 million no-bid contract to Puerto Rico just got a new no-bid contract
Remember the Montana company with two employees that won a dubious $300 million no-bid contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s utility grid after Hurricane Maria? Whitefish Energy’s strange deal was very quickly put under a microscope, with calls for its cancellation growing hourly. In the fall of 2017, the contract was indeed canceled and Whitefish Energy told news outlets that Puerto Rico still owed the company over $83 million. The CEO of Whitefish Energy was Andy Techmanski, a Montana buddy of former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. I’ll give you one guess at who is back getting million dollar no-bid contracts? Yup! According to CNN, Andy Techmanski has a new company he co-leads, and he’s not in the utility business anymore. He just got a no-bid government contract for $4 million to “provide a total of 100,000 reusable gowns over the next four months” to the Veterans Administration. Read more