Officials said there was no evidence that Keleher or Ávila-Marrero had personally benefited from the scheme, but Rodríguez said Velázquez Piñol had improperly taken advantage of contacts in the education and health insurance agencies to win federal contracts and illegally used federal money to pay for lobbying.
"It's a pity that we see this kind of scheme," Puerto Rico's head prosecutor, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez, said at a press conference in San Juan on Wednesday."It's a shame because there is a lot to do for Puerto Rico and the people accused here profited from this, they sought to benefit their own personal interests and did not think they could help or that they were in a position to help Puerto Rico ... It's embarrassing.
“It was alleged that the defendants engaged in a public corruption campaign and profited at the expense of the Puerto Rican citizens and students. This type of corruption is particularly egregious because it not only victimizes tax payers, it victimizes those citizens and students that are in need of educational assistance,” said Neil Sanchez, special agent in charge of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General’s Southern Region.
So that’s where the aid went to? 🤷♀️
How is this Trumps fault?
What's funny is that this happens here in the states all the time.
So, in other words, President Trump was right when he called the PR government corrupt.
Puerto Rico is a shithole state. 😂
Trump wins again.
Arrests follow corruption. The whole island tried to shame President Trump into being the 'reason ' that all of Puerto Rico almost collapsed. Now if we could get some justice for the Clinton Crime Cartel for their crimes against Haitian people
Trump would approve.
They will get a job at the white house.
Coming soon, the mayor in handcuffs for withholding aid and turning a disaster into a political circus.
Why is nobody arresting realDonaldTrump ?
Halliburton?
IT FIGURES
The whole Trump Administration is just the most corrupt body of people the US has ever known... And that includes all of Congress for goodness sake
Stop with the winning already!
And the Dems wanted us to send these people even more money. They also called everyone a liar that accused Puerto Rican govt of corruption. Now we hear nothing from them.
Most of the students from these schools are probably on the streets because some b*tch decided that some kids aren’t worthy of an education while others are. And not all of them can go far to another school
Betsy DeVos is a star. She go rid of Obama’s sexist policies of denying due process rights for college men! Obama was a terrible president with all his sexist and racist policies!
So TRUMP was right that money was being used wrong when he said no more money for them since they are corrupted
Imagine that!
xhertx Long overdue
OH my..wouldn't be corrupt in Purrto Rico..!!!..HA so corrupt ...like man elected iKissimmee or Osceola County post & hires son, girlfriend and others...couple years ago woman from Orlando..or Black rep from Jacksonville went shopping with $800,000 tax dollars...now in jail.
LeftyRey_Writes poppazo2001 it's gonna b asuper long day on twitter today...
Big surprise there!🙄🙄
So PR’s corruption continues...
Wow...some are arrested immediately whereas others...it takes years! Our justice system APPEARS to be fickle 🙄🤨🤔
Democrat!!!
No way, corrupt politician's don't exist.
*gasp* *shock*
Trump is draining the corrupt swamp!