WASHINGTON _ Two U.S. senators called Wednesday for an investigation into FEMA's awarding of multimillion-dollar contracts to companies with "little to no experience" doing the work required in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
The senators were reacting to reporting by McClatchy on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's contracting process in the wake of the Sept. 20, 2017, storm that devastated the U.S. territory in the Caribbean.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released a letter Wednesday that highlighted contracts awarded to a Puerto Rican truck-parts supplier called La Casa del Camionero, which McClatchy reported last month has been awarded more than $40 million despite having never done any work for FEMA before and lacking direct expertise in the work being contracted out by the agency.
