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The U.S. Department of Justice released an declaration on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, of the conviction of Puerto Rico Senator Hector Martinez Maldonado, 42, and Juan Bravo Fernandez, 55, the past chair of one of the maximal clannish section companies in Puerto Rico. They were blameable by a commission in San Juan for involved in a felony scheme involving governing approbatory to Bravo Fernandez business.

Both men were blameable of federal program bribery. Fernandez was also blameable of traveling in interstate mercantilism in assistance of racketeering and band to send to travel in interstate mercantilism in assistance of racketeering. Maldonado was tried for, but guiltless of, conspiracy, traveling in interstate mercantilism in assistance of racketeering and impediment of justice.

“ By involved in a brazen scheme involving the mercantilism of change and lavish trips for votes and official acts, these defendants subverted the egalitarian process,” said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. “Now they are sight the consequences. As these convictions show, the Justice Department is sworn to investigating and prosecuting open immorality wherever we encounter it.” (DOJ advise release- March 8, 2011).

“Corruption relies on connections, forcing businessmen to move supposed relationships with polity officials, who facilitate their requests and present them favors. This debased behavior, ingrained so deeply in the Puerto Rican government's fabric, allows money and noesis to embellish one. Law abiding citizens must shit those duplicitous polity officials in order to tracheophyte discover immorality from our society,” said Luis Fraticelli, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI-San Juan Field Office. (Ibid)

Maldonado was first elected to the Puerto Rican senate in 2004 and began serving a four-year term in Jan 2005. He was re-elected in 2008.

Bravo Fernandez was blameable of conspiring to bonded the lawmaking of digit bills approbatory to his playing interests by bribing Martinez Maldonado and Jorge de socialist Font, a past Puerto Rican senator. Fernandez was the chair and chief executive officer of Ranger American, one of the maximal clannish section firms in Puerto Rico. Beginning in 2005, Martinez Maldonado served as Chairman of the Puerto Rico Public Safety Committee, exertion momentous curb over governing related to the section and accord safety. Also first in 2005, De socialist Font served as Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Calendars, exertion momentous curb over which bills, confirmations and other matters were brought to a balloting on the story of the senate and when they were brought to a vote.

De socialist Font pleaded blameable on Jan. 21, 2009, to 20 counts of honest services accommodate fraud and one calculate of band to send extortion. He is today inactivity to be sentenced.

Sentencing for Fernandez and Maldonado has been regular for June 7, 2011. Fernandez faces a peak declare of fivesome eld in situation and a $250,000 dustlike for each calculate of band and travel in assistance of racketeering and 10 eld in situation and a $250,000 dustlike for the felony count. Maldonado faces a peak penalisation of 10 eld in situation and a $250,000 dustlike for the felony count.

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