At a certain level, I sympathise with the guy. I am no fan of campaign finance laws. But one of the things that make them so bad is that they are complex enough that almost everyone falls afoul of them. The other is that enforcing them inevitably is going to take on the air of a political witch-hunt.
If the offending party wins, who is going to investigate him? And if the offending party loses, going after them after an electoral loss is going to look like political piling on, like the winner is just using his power of office to attack his enemies.
The McCain finance laws are bad news. But the answer is to get rid of them. If you’re being hammered for something like this, I could understand why you’d suddenly want to be protected from bad federal law.
I know Acevedo is accused of lying to investigators, but after Libby, and after Ramos/Compean, that doesn’t impress me much anymore. I don’t give federal investigators the benefit of the doubt I once did.
He has 19 felony counts against him, the least of which are related directly to campaign finances. We’re talking about outright tax evasion, falsification of documents, conspiracy to defraud the IRS, the FEC and the PR-CEE. It is expected that the next superceding indictment will include perjury and obstruction to justice.
Hardly an acceptable rap sheet for someone who’s supposed to be the top law enforcement officer in the island government.