Posted on 08/04/2022 5:35:44 AM PDT by Ebenezer
(Translation)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested former constitutional Governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez at her residence in the Montehiedra neighborhood in the early hours of the morning today.
It has been indicated that Vázquez is at the FBI building.
Vázquez's arrest comes a little over two months after the team of attorneys of who is also the [island's] former Attorney General anticipated her possibly being charged at the federal level with election fraud.
[News/talk-radio station] NotiUno 630 reported that a group of prosecutors from the Division of Public Integrity of the federal Department of Justice based in Washington had concluded an investigation against Vázquez. It was reported that two of her campaign and Governor's Mansion collaborators - Lillian Sánchez and Marisol Blasco — testified before the grand jury that is investigating alleged irregularities related to election donations during the 2020 primary process.
The story goes back to an invitation Vázquez received to a meeting with bankers, at least one of them having given her donations in exchange for stopping an investigation against his bank that operates in Puerto Rico since 2009.
Vázquez had already given her cellular telephone to the federal authorities previously and said at the time that she was willing to cooperate.
It was said that the federal authorities had arrest warrants for two other people.
Guess not.
See post 8.
🙂👍 I did a little too late. Impatient me.
“.... in the early hours of the morning ...”
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This was done to **humiliate**. Was this former **governor** marched out of her house wearing a **nightgown**???!!!!
The classic knock on your door at 3:00 AM.
Is she a Republican?
Or did she piss off a bigger Democrat fish?
Election fraud doesn't exist, and even if it did there is no evidence that the fraud was widespread enough to have made a difference anyway.
Isn't that we have been told for over a year and a half now?
Election fraud? In a Democrat stronghold? NOOOOOOOOO!/S
I wonder if she got her initial training in Maricopa county.
Didn’t make it to the Underground railroad after escaping the plantain.
Pedro Pierluisi, the incumbent Governor and a Democrat, gave the following statements:
“We see once again that no one is above the law in Puerto Rico. At these news that certainly affect and damage our people’s trust, I reiterate that my administration will continue having a common front with the federal authorities against all who commit an improper act, wherever it comes from and whoever is implicated, as well as promoting initiatives and following up on legislative bills that have been presented to fight corruption. We all have to be united against this social ill, and my administration has zero tolerance for corruption.”
It all sounds nice, but Pierluisi appears to have already declared Vázquez guilty.
See post 18.
“Vázquez’s arrest comes a little over two months after the team of attorneys of who is also the [island’s] former Attorney General anticipated her possibly being charged at the federal level with election fraud.”
Irony. We should be so lucky (Xiden et al).
So Trump was right..... AGAIN!!!!!
Yeah. The one standing in the warehouse full of aid from the U.S.A. after the hurricane and complained that Trump didn’t send anything? Is this her?
In 2025, Trump needs to make AOC czarina of Puerto Rico and spin the whole thing off to Venezuela.
All the cats in Puerto Rico just rented a cruise liner to get away.
So that’s why they arrested her.
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