![]() Obama’s White House then put her on staff as a director at the National Security Council.Īhsha Nateef Tribble became Obama’s Senior Director for Response and even served as an interim Deputy Homeland Security Advisor. as a senior policy advisor coordinating with the White House. Under Obama, the former Florida girl was in D.C. There is, unfortunately, another explanation.Īnd it’s why the blame for the Puerto Rico mess falls squarely on the Obama administration. Even an evil genius would have done a better job of cashing in than hotels, a casino and a copter. But her indictment doesn’t suggest a genius. With that kind of resume, Ahsha must have been brilliant. Two years after graduating, she was the Executive Officer at the NOAA National Hurricane Center.įive years after graduation, she was the Chief of the Climate Sciences Division for NOAA’s National Weather Service. And the year she graduated she was somehow already the Technical Chief of Staff at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce at NOAA. After earning a BS in Math from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, an MS in Meteorology from Florida State, she had traveled out of state to the University of Oklahoma for a PhD in Meteorology. Not that Ahsha had anything to complain about. But while her annual salary of $149,000 placed her among the top 10% of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it wasn’t enough to buy her everything she wanted.Īnd that’s what Ellison was allegedly doing by, in the language of the indictment, promising, offering and giving “Ahsha Nateef Tribble a stream of things of value, including airfare, ground transportation, helicopter fights, hotel rooms, meals, entertainment expenses.” $149,000 a year only goes so far. But the game of profiting from catastrophe was a fun one.Īt Casino Del Mar, Ahsha Nateef Tribble was enjoying the good life at the top of a meteoric career. The dice have come up snake eyes and the croupier is taking back all the chips. The indictments of Tribble and Ellison ended the game. What was a mere $3,000 compared to the millions and billions that they were already playing with? And Tribble had the authority to dispense $200 million in public assistance projects. Ellison’s Cobra had received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid. The stakes would have easily broken the Casino Del Mar. Tribble and Ellison were gambling in more ways than one. The indictment alleges that Tribble and Ellison were together at the gambling tables and the cash cage. That’s why Ahsha had been appointed FEMA’s Power Sector Chief and Infrastructure Chief for Recovery.Īnd she was certainly helping one part of Puerto Rico recover.Īt Casino Del Mar, Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions, who has been indicted alongside Tribble, was seen in surveillance footage picking up $3,000 worth of casino chips. One of those high rollers was a FEMA administrator.Īhsha Nateef Tribble’s job had been to get Puerto Rico working again. Its blue neon wave walls were shimmering, the machines were jingling and there were some high rollers at the tables. Except maybe some especially unlucky gamblers. But no one was dying at the luxury resort in San Juan with its 15,000 square feet of gaming tables and its seven restaurants. San Juan’s Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz had become a CNN celeb by wearing a, “Help Us We Are Dying” t-shirt. But the FEMA times were good at Casino Del Mar. By August, FEMA had stopped paying for the nearly 2,500 displaced Puerto Ricans who had been living in hotels after Hurricane Maria had wrecked their homes. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.īy September 2018, despite billions of dollars in aid, Puerto Rico was still a mess. ![]()
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