2004News

US$112,500 to a chauffeur?

Listin Diario columnist Ana Mitila Lora writes today that the company Goodson Investments, Inc. of Miami issued two checks from the Northern Trust Bank of Florida worth US$112,500 in the name of Domingo Hernandez, PRSC Deputy Mario Fernandez Savinon?s driver.

While urging the legislator to explain the situation, the journalist comments that in greasing the way for the legislators to approve the loans for the Plan Renove (the million-peso government transport program), hefty sums were distributed in order to sway legislators to vote in favor of the loans needed to purchase buses, minibuses and even forklifts for those with influence in the government. See http://www.clavedigital.com/ED02/Portada/PortadaAP.htm