{"id":153306,"date":"2021-02-08T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=153306"},"modified":"2021-02-08T08:12:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:12:23","slug":"more-reports-on-wasteful-spending-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/02\/08\/more-reports-on-wasteful-spending-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"More reports on wasteful spending in government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ministerio-de-Industria-y-Comercio-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ministerio-de-Industria-y-Comercio-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ministerio-de-Industria-y-Comercio-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre publishes today a report on 4,500 political appointees in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The political appointees cost taxpayers RD$611 million a year. Since the change of government, several reports have appeared on parallel payrolls used for political favors. The report points out that several on the payroll were close relatives of former Minister of Industry and Commerce and high-ranking PLD party leader, Tem\u00edstocles Mont\u00e1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/cancelan-en-el-ministerio-de-industria-y-comercio-4500-botellas-en-cinco-meses-NB24254119\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 February 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diario Libre publishes today a report on 4,500 political appointees in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The political appointees cost taxpayers RD$611 million a year. Since the change of government, several reports have appeared on parallel payrolls used for political favors. The report points out that several on the payroll were close relatives of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/02\/08\/more-reports-on-wasteful-spending-in-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153336,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153306\/revisions\/153336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}