The Attorney General, Francisco Dominguez Brito and the District Attorney for the National District, Yeni Berenice Reynoso have not excluded the possibility that all the people named in Sobeida Felix Morel’s sworn statements might be called in and investigated. According to El Nuevo Diario, Dominguez Brito said that Miguel Vargas Maldonado and others said to have received money, vehicles, and other gifts from the Puerto Rican capo could well be investigated. The case has again become headline news after Felix Morel requested to be freed on conditional release after fulfilling half of her sentence. She was jailed for accusations of asset laundering and drug trafficking charges.
In another area, the Attorney General said that the plea bargain with Felix Morel has not been broken. The defendants say that the plea bargain stated that there would be no objection from the Justice Department to parole after she serves half of her five-year sentence for money laundering. Now Dominguez Brito is saying that the deal was made by and only applies to the National District and was not agreed to by the Justice Department. He said that the plea bargain was confined to the jurisdiction of the National District and the request for parole was heard by a judge in San Cristobal, which was a different matter. District Attorney Yeni Berenice Reynoso has added that Felix Morel did not fully meet her part of the plea bargain.
Moreover, Felix Morel’s defense lawyer Felix Portes attacked the Attorney General’s stance, saying that the Justice Department is violating its own organic law and the judicial security that should be guaranteed by the state. He told Hoy reporter Cynthia Abreu that after someone “puts her life at risk” the Justice Department could not oppose the parole that was part of the plea bargain. He said that the District Attorney’s negative stance on the plea bargain signed between Felix Morel and the former District Attorney for the National District and current judge on the Supreme Court of Justice, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, violates articles 22 and 23 of the Organic Law of the Justice Ministry that establishes the principles of indivisibility and unity of action.
He added that the failure to fulfill the plea bargain weakens the state because “nobody will trust a lying and treacherous state.” He described Dominguez Brito’s argument that the deal only applied to the National District as “ridiculous and infantile.” He said if this were the case, then Sobeida should be in jail in Ciudad Nueva and not in Najayo.