Posted on 12/30/2008 6:03:01 AM PST by cll
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Puerto Rico's governor, indicted on corruption charges, posted a video on the popular social networking site Facebook admitting to making mistakes.
During the four-minute video, Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila apologized to Puerto Ricans saying he "committed errors."
However, he did not address specific charges against him or admit to any criminal wrongdoing, according to the video posted Sunday.
A federal indictment handed down earlier this year accused the Puerto Rican governor...
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It’s the typical “cover-my-a**” response indicted politicians are notorious for. Everything was a “mistake” or an “error”, and they “never committed any wrongdoing”.
I find it interesting that, right before the elections, Acevedo had to give this televised speech for all to see protesting his innocence against the federal charges. Now that he lost his bid for re-election, is on his way out of the Governor’s Mansion come Friday, and will stand trial in February, he uses an Internet website to sing his swan song. Why the low profile?
“Why the low profile?”
It is widely rumored by Federal Court insiders that he’s trying to cut a deal with the feds. He’ll become a regular Joe on Friday and he used up his rethorical capital.
YOu can tell he is a democrat because the headline didn’t say “Republican”.
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