{"id":57631,"date":"2014-10-06T18:09:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=57631"},"modified":"2014-10-06T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:09:30","slug":"who-is-the-senator-in-the-wsj-corruption-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/10\/06\/who-is-the-senator-in-the-wsj-corruption-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the senator in the WSJ corruption report?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A Wall Street Journal report released last month coinciding with President Danilo Medina and former President Leonel Fernandez&#8217;s visit to New York City mentioned an unnamed Dominican senator who was allegedly paid a bribe as a key figure in the Super Tucanos purchase. <\/p>\n<p> All eyes focused on PLD senator Felix Bautista, but now online news outlet Acento speculates that the WSJ was referring to another influential senator. <\/p>\n<p> Acento reports that Felix Bautista was not a senator during the President Leonel Fernandez government when the 2008-2009 negotiations for the planes took place. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/acento.com.do\/2014\/politica\/8177827-no-el-senador-de-los-aviones-tucano-no-es-felix-bautistaseria-un-danilista\/<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/acento.com.do\/2014\/actualidad\/8177147-carlos-piccini-vincho-castillo-pelegrin-castillo-y-pena-antonio-defendieron-la-compra-de-los-tucanos\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wall Street Journal report released last month coinciding with President Danilo Medina and former President Leonel Fernandez&#8217;s visit to New York City mentioned an unnamed Dominican senator who was allegedly paid a bribe as a key figure in the Super Tucanos purchase. All eyes focused on PLD senator Felix Bautista, but now online news &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/10\/06\/who-is-the-senator-in-the-wsj-corruption-report\/\" 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":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57631"}],"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=57631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}