How We Screwed Over Puerto Rico

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today's Gist, thick-as-bricks Lego thieves come a-tumbling down. Hurricane recovery has been a disaster in Puerto Rico. NPR's Laura Sullivan wanted to know why. So she found documents revealing a FEMA in shambles. She traced Puerto Rico's economic troubles back to a 1996 tax vote. And she explains how the island's remaining wealth was wiped out by years of shady municipal debt deals. Sullivan's report for NPR and Frontline is called "Blackout in Puerto Rico." You should really watch it. In the Spiel, is it spring yet? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The content that's explicit will not come with a warning except for this.
0:04.7	So bear in mind what I am saying this show is explicit content.
0:12.5	It's Tuesday, May 1, 2018 from slated to justime, my Pesca.
0:16.9	And now to breaking or, I guess yesterday's breaking news, Portland's KGW-8.
0:21.7	Stop the chase!
0:23.2	Catch the trucks!
0:24.4	Legos are hotter than ever,
0:26.6	but some sold on resale size might be hotter than you think.
0:31.2	Oh my god, if they finally come out with a Jennifer Connolly
0:34.1	in career opportunities, Lego?
0:36.0	Take Raji Azar.
0:37.6	Definitely not.
0:38.7	Police say he's accused of orchestrating the theft and resale of more than $50,000 in Legos.
0:45.7	$50,000 in stolen Legos.
0:48.6	This was big news in Portland.
0:51.0	Not only did the NBC affiliate that we were playing have it, but so did ABC13.
0:56.0	They had their man on the scene, and their report included my favorite description,
1:00.1	or technically abdication of a description right up top.
1:03.6	Neighbors say they had no idea anything unusual was going on,
1:06.9	that this non-descript southeast Portland home was apparently a clearinghouse for stolen Legos.
1:13.1	But even though the house was non-descript,
1:15.4	and not say assembled from a few dozen pieces of molded plastic,
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