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Wanda Emilia Vázquez Garced (born July 9, 1960) [5] [6] is a Puerto Rican politician and attorney who served as the 188th Governor of Puerto Rico from 2019 to 2021. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Prior to her tenure as governor, she served as the 19th Secretary of Justice from 2017 to 2019.
Since 1959, there have been 34 states which have appointed or elected women as attorneys-general. Puerto Rico has had a record four women hold office as attorney general, the most of any U.S. state or territory. Anne X. Alpern of Pennsylvania is the first woman to hold office as the attorney-general of a state. [1]
In December 2018, amid concerns of unlawful intervention on behalf of his wife, then Attorney General Wanda Vázquez Garced, Díaz Reverón was removed from the chamber. [1] [3] The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, ordered an investigation based on judicial ethical concerns which later found no probable cause. [4]
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez was arrested Thursday morning on criminal corruption charges related to a bribery scheme where she allegedly accepted donations to her political campaign in ...
U.S. authorities on Thursday announced criminal charges against former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez, who was in office from 2019 to 2021, for alleged corruption during her 2020 election ...
Other high-profile arrests, unrelated to Tuesday's lawsuits, include former governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vazquez Garced, who was arrested in 2022 for allegedly bribing several people to finance ...
Pierluisi vacated the Palace of Santa Catalina at noon of 7 August 2019, and Wanda Vázquez Garced was sworn that day at 5pm as the 13th Constitutional Governor of Puerto Rico. Her New Progressive Party (PNP) had majorities on both chambers of the 18th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico and she inherited several cabinet members from the ...
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez was arrested Thursday on bribery charges linked to the financing of her 2020 campaign, the latest hit to an island with a long history of corruption that ...