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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 ...
(Bloomberg) -- Two former Puerto Rico officials, along with the head of an accounting firm and three others, were indicted over allegations of theft, money laundering and wire fraud, escalating ...
The first type are also applicable to corrupt state and local officials: [1] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, [2] the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), [3] the Travel Act (enacted 1961), [4] and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970).
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.
Operation Guard Shack was a two-year FBI investigation into law enforcement corruption in Puerto Rico. [30] The operation came to a conclusion on 6 October 2010 with a series of pre-dawn raids that led to over 130 [31] arrests of members of the Puerto Rico Police Department, various municipal departments, and the Puerto Rico Corrections ...
A proposed amended contract between Puerto Rico’s government and the operator of a coal-fired power plant accused of contaminating low-income communities on the island drew scrutiny Monday ...
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 ...
President Trump lambasted Puerto Rican officials for corruption via Twitter ahead of Tropical Storm Dorian, on Wednesday.