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Puerto Rico’s Justice Department announced Tuesday that it is suing at least 30 ex-government officials accused of corruption to recover more than $30 million in public funds. Among those sued ...
Operation Guard Shack was a two-year Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into corruption within the law enforcement of Puerto Rico. [1] The operation came to a conclusion on 6 October 2010, with a series of pre-dawn raids that led to over 130 arrests of members of the Puerto Rico Police Department and the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as well as other ...
Operation Lost Honor was the biggest case of officer corruption that the FBI had ever dealt with. [3] Orlando Sentinel journalist Ivan Roman said that the bust "stunned a department already reeling from a series of" previous scandals. [3] Continuing issues regarding police misconduct and other problems dogged the PRPD years after Operation Lost ...
Puerto Rico’s Department of Economic Development has been collaborating with the IRS in its investigation into about 100 cases involving possible Act 22 fraud. Fontan said this collaboration has ...
Police corruption in Puerto Rico stems from the fact that police officers make small wages and are so close to the cocaine trafficking. [29] Operation Guard Shack was a two-year FBI investigation into law enforcement corruption in Puerto Rico. [30]
Puerto Rico Senator Freddy Valentin, Puerto Rican was sentenced to 33 months in prison for money laundering and extortion in a corruption case involving public-housing contracts in the U.S. territory, a former pro-statehood senator, pleaded guilty in March to the two charges. (2002) [194]
Romero Soto faces federal drug charges after three bricks of cocaine were found in a lamp in a package sent from Puerto Rico to a St. Cloud home in Osceola County.
Julia Beatrice Keleher (born November 15, 1974) is an American educator, former Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) under the Ricardo Rosselló administration and a federal convict for public corruption. As the Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education during Hurricane Maria in 2017, Keleher argued that the ...