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  • Ex-aide: Education funds used for LULAC activities

    07/18/2002 3:47:32 PM PDT · by 4Freedom · 7 replies · 193+ views
    The San Juan Star | Thursday, July 18, 2002 | CARLOS ANTONIO OTERO
    In addition to the personal security that Island Security provided to former Education Secretary Victor Fajardo, public funds also paid for security services at activities for the League of United Latin American Citizens, according to an Education Department employee. Carmen Ortega, a social worker for the department, testified for a second day Wednesday before the Senate Education and Culture Committee, which is looking into whether public funds were funneled to LULAC, a non-profit organization, to lobby for statehood under the Rosello administration. Ortega was an assistant to Elsie Valdes, the former director of Education's Drug and Weapons Free School Zone...