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The government of Wanda Vázquez Garced was formed the week following the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares as a result of the massive protests resulting from the Telegramgate scandal, and a Supreme Court decision that vacated the office from an invalid occupant. [1]
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.
This is a list of notable U.S. state officials convicted of only certain federal public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. The list is organized by office. Acquitted officials are not listed (if an official was acquitted on some counts, and convicted on others, the counts of conviction are listed).
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 ...
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 ...
A criminal defense attorney was charged in a federal indictment unsealed last week with conspiring to murder a member of the Mexican Mafia who had fallen out of favor with the prison-based syndicate.
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]
“The defendants’ goal, the indictment charges, was to ignite a race war,” a prosecutor said in a Monday news conference. California woman solicited assassinations of U.S. officials, federal ...