After Hours: We Follow the Money, Fraud and Corruption in Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Funding
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:05.0 | Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours. |
| 0:12.0 | I hope that when you finish listening to this |
| 0:14.6 | podcast you will consider going wherever you like to order books, Amazon or |
| 0:19.8 | Harper Collins or in the other place, and pre-order my new book, |
| 0:23.9 | slanted how the news media taught us to love censorship |
| 0:27.4 | and hate journalism. |
| 0:29.0 | It explains so many of the things |
| 0:31.3 | that you're seeing in the news today, the misreporting, the |
| 0:34.9 | bias, the sensationalism. So I hope you'll order slanted for yourself or someone who |
| 0:40.3 | cares about these issues today. In our podcast, Full Measure After Hours |
| 0:45.2 | this week, I'm going to update what's going on in Puerto Rico after we obligated |
| 0:50.9 | an unprecedented amount of taxpayer money for hurricane relief, but ended up with a lot of corruption and fraud arrests, |
| 1:00.0 | and I haven't seen much other news coverage about all of this. |
| 1:03.0 | So that's our subject today. |
| 1:09.0 | If you watch my television program |
| 1:11.0 | Full Measure on Sundays or the replays at full measure |
| 1:14.6 | dot news online anytime you know that I've been to Puerto Rico a couple of times |
| 1:18.9 | to cover some underreported stories and one of them was the double hurricane disasters a couple of years ago |
| 1:26.2 | after which a record 91 billion dollars in tax money was committed for recovery. |
| 1:36.2 | Those hurricanes happened right after my first trip to Puerto Rico where I was covering their corruption scandal. The island was and is basically in a technical bankruptcy after many years of corruption and misspending. |
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