{"id":7643,"date":"2004-08-31T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/retirement-for-pepe-goico\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T01:43:56","slug":"retirement-for-pepe-goico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/08\/31\/retirement-for-pepe-goico\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement for Pepe Goico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Leonel Fernandez has placed the army&#8217;s controversial Colonel Pedro Julio (Pepe) Goico Guerrero into retirement. Goico had been accused of embezzlement at the National Lottery, but was subsequently pardoned and taken on as the chief of security by former President Hipolito Mejia. Later, he was accused of involvement in a million-peso credit card scam to do with the now-defunct Baninter. In addition, Goico&#8217;s personal travel visa for the United States was revoked by the US government. Goico had threatened to name other higher-ups involved in the credit card scandal and other matters of his knowledge if a criminal case against him were to be pursued through the judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Leonel Fernandez has placed the army&#8217;s controversial Colonel Pedro Julio (Pepe) Goico Guerrero into retirement. Goico had been accused of embezzlement at the National Lottery, but was subsequently pardoned and taken on as the chief of security by former President Hipolito Mejia. Later, he was accused of involvement in a million-peso credit card scam &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/08\/31\/retirement-for-pepe-goico\/\" 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":[223,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643"}],"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=7643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}