FEMA Pays Exorbitant Price for Charter of Carnival Fascination After Hurricane Maria

According to WRLN in Miami, FEMA grossly overpaid Carnival Cruise Line to charter the Carnival Fascination to provide housing for FEMA workers following Hurricane Maria.  According to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Daniel Rivero, WLRN states that FEMA agreed to pay Carnival $74,700,000 to provide accommodations aboard the Carnival Fascination to house federal aid workers and first responders in St. Croix.   As WLRN explains, the FEMA-Carnival contract provides that the cruise line agreed to house 2,056 FEMA workers for the length of the four month contract. The average number of nightly passengers for the contract period was around 800 which, given the contract price, turns out to be $834 per person per night, paid by U.S. taxpayers. That's a staggering rate or well over over $5,000 per week per passenger.  WLRN calculated the market rate for a cruise on the Carnival Fascination between $370 and $1,200…

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