Former Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, in a letter to the Listin Diario today, takes issue with the fact that lawyer Marino (Vincho) Vinicio Castillo included her among the former government officers he alleged had ordered “the squandering of criminal evidence” such as luxury vehicles, apartments, farmland and other property confiscated from Dominicans and foreigners arrested in the country for drug or money laundering. She said that while in government she interceded in the case of Mary Perez de Marranzini, who was represented by the National Council of Handicapped Persons, so that TV and radio hosts Tania Baez, Nuria Piera and Zoila Luna could use some of the confiscated property for humanitarian endeavors. Bosch said the first request was for a property to be used by the Consejo Nacional de la Discapacidad, and the second for a center to assist battered women, lobbied for by the TV and radio personalities. She said her petition was not successful in either case.
“I make this clarification with the intention to spare myself from the mudslinging that seeks to sully our conduct records, and within the criteria expressed by President Hipolito Mejia, that each one of his officers should be responsible for his or her acts in government,” she concludes in the letter to the newspaper.