Donald Trump certainly got the lion’s share of the blame from the mainstream media and political Left for the disaster-relief response to the devasted island of Puerto Rico last year.
They all overlooked possible criminal negligence from the U.S. territory’s own liberal politicians.
Per Conservative Tribune:
The San Juan mayor and others made it clear that they held Trump responsible. “We are dying, and you (Trump) are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy,” she said during a television conference in early October.
Fast forward to this week. It turns out that sure enough, there was plenty of “inefficiency and bureaucracy” in Puerto Rico … but it looks like the island’s own liberal politicians were likely the ones behind it.
A Puerto Rican mayor and two additional island officials have now been charged with corruption, according to The Associated Press.
Although the alleged crimes go back before Hurricane Maria made landfall in the Caribbean, the arrests paint a dire picture of widespread corruption and misuse of government funds during the same general time frame as the disaster.
According to the AP, the primary suspects are the mayor of Sabana Grande, a town of 25,000 on the island’s southwestern edge and the former directors of finance for the community of Toa Baja, a city approaching 100,000 in the north.
There are other officials accused by the U.S. Attorney Office, headed by Rosa Emilia Rodriguez, of taking millions of dollars granted by the federal government for disaster-relief programs and re-directing it to fulfill their own selfish needs.
“Not only is that illegal, it’s immoral,” Rodriguez said.
More arrests may follow in the coming days. Stay with AAN for the latest updates.
AAN Staff
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