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Full Measure After Hours

After Hours: We Follow the Money, Fraud and Corruption in Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Funding

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News Commentary, News

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Is Full Measure the only news program following this major story? Dozens of charges in corruption and fraud arrests among Puerto Rico officials and contractors after US taxpayers committed $91 billion to the hurricane relief effort.  Subscribe to my two podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.” Leave a review … and share with your friends! Order “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson at Harper Collins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound, Bookshop! Visit SharylAttkisson.com and www.FullMeasure.news for original reporting. Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sharylattkisson/supportSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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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