At least 50 people died from the hurricane and only 25 percent of the island's electricity has been restored thus far.
Earlier in the week it was also revealed that Interior Secretary Ryan Zincke and Whitefish CEO Andy Techmanski are good friends and neighbors living in a tiny Montana town.
"They live in a town of 7,000 people where everyone knows everyone," a Whitefish spokesmen said. "We secured this work with PREPA on our own."
"Are there only two contractors in the entire United States that can bid on this electrical rebuilding project? Seems unlikely," asked Al Rickard, a Republican strategist since 1982.
"Also, the scale of the project far exceeds anything this company has ever done before, so it's a shot in the dark, with the likelihood of tax dollars being wasted," said Rickard, who worked with the Young Republicans during the Reagan years.
"As for the company being in Whitefish, this seems like an all-too-convenient coincidence," Rickard told Xinhua.
"Seems like slam-dunk nepotism run amok. Stinks like (White)fish!" Rickard said.
Both the White House and Zincke have scrambled away from the bubbling imbroglio, despite revelations that the secretary's son worked for Whitefish last summer.
Even President Trump, after bashing the mayor of San Juan for her lack of appreciation for the emergency relief efforts, has been silent about "the contract" on Twitter.
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