Puerto Rico: March 2008 Archives

Cross-posted at Telling Stories

Well, the other shoe has finally dropped for Anibal Acevedo Vilá:

Puerto Rico's governor and four Philadelphians, including prominent fund-raiser Robert M. Feldman, were charged this morning in San Juan with federal campaign-finance related crimes, according to a Justice Department official in Washington.

The investigation of Gov. Anibal Acevedo-Vila, a Democrat who faces re-election this year, was triggered by the FBI's Philadelphia City Hall corruption probe in 2003.

Acevedo-Vila, who has called the investigation politically inspired, was expected to surrender to federal authorities and appear before a federal magistrate in San Juan later today.

This is the same guy who got elected partially on a promise of clean, transparent government.

Riiiiiight . . .