Wanda Vázquez’s former campaign manager, Jorge Davilaclaimed on RADIO ISLA that the former governor’s election campaign did not receive $300,000 for political consultants.
According to the indictment, from December 2019 to June 2020, then-Governor of Puerto Rico Vázquez Garced, 62, participated in a bribery scheme with several individuals, including Julio Martín Herrera Velutini, Frances Díaz, Mark Rossini and John Blakeman for funded Váquez. Garced 2020 gubernatorial campaign.
He noted that Julio Martín Herrera, owner of an international bank operating in San Juan, and Mark Rossini, a former special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), paid over $300,000 to international political consultants to support the campaign of Vázquez. . This, in exchange for the dismissal of the then commissioner of the regulatory agency for financial institutions (OCIF) who was investigating Herrera’s bank.
Jorge Dávila indicated that there was no service that he could identify “clearly and visually” where the $300 million had been used. “I would like to know who these political consultants are”Dávila stated after pointing out that in Puerto Rico political polls “do not cost $300,000”.
Wanda Vázquez was arrested yesterday by the FBI and charged with seven counts of bribery. Herrera and Rossini were also charged federally, but they were not in Puerto Rico. Vazquez was set a $50,000 bond, which he posted, so he is free on bail.
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