The Lineman Got $63 an Hour. The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour.

[Tom Rinaldo]

19. Every dollar Whitefish charged subcontracting above industry norms for similar scenarios was gauging

Sure they didn't make pure profit on the $256 per hour they billed Puerto Rico above the pay they gave the linemen. But are you trying to claim that the cost of actual labor is less than a third of the cost of hiring that labor and administering their records etc? For each and every hour that each and every worker worked? Week in and week out? That is laughable on its face. Especially at this reimbursement level. It essentially costs no more to do record keeping for electrical linemen than it does for burger flippers. Other companies hired and trained the workers that Whitefish profited from in Puerto Rico. Whitefish brought nothing to the table except political connections. They had no expertise in managing this type project - they had no workers of their own. They are leaches pure and simple, profiting greatly from other's grief. And that goes to the core of the corruption inherent in the current Republican control of Washington