{"id":1457496,"date":"2024-02-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1457496"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:40:00","slug":"former-puerto-rico-mayor-gets-5-years-after-being-caught-in-high-profile-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/former-puerto-rico-mayor-gets-5-years-after-being-caught-in-high-profile-bribery-case\/1457496\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Puerto Rico Mayor Gets 5 Years After Being Caught In &#8220;High Profile Bribery Case&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Former Puerto Rico Mayor Gets 5 Years After Being Caught In &#8220;High Profile Bribery Case&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>A former Puerto Rico mayor faces 5 years in prison after he was caught on tape in a &#8220;high-profile bribery case&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1ngel P\u00e9rez Otero was sentenced on Monday as part of a wider federal crackdown on\u00a0government corruption in Puerto Rico, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/former-puerto-rico-mayor-caught-film-bribery-case-107171896\">ABC News reported<\/a> this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Otero had previously been\u00a0found guilty of conspiracy, bribery back in March, charged with awarding contract and expediting invoice payments while getting kickbacks of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Federal authorities said the scheme ran from late 2019 to May 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-puerto-rico-mayor-convicted-accepting-bribes\">wrote about the scheme<\/a>:\u00a0&#8220;According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, \u00c1ngel P\u00e9rez-Otero, 52, was involved in a bribery conspiracy in which, from approximately late 2019 through May 2021, he accepted thousands of dollars in cash bribes on a regular basis from the owner of a construction company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/angel.jpg?itok=5uoXHBh5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In exchange for these payments, P\u00e9rez-Otero agreed to obtain and retain contracts for the company and ensured that its invoices were promptly paid,&#8221; the release continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;P\u00e9rez Otero was placed under arrest by FBI agents on Dec. 9, 2021, after a Colombian businessman, Oscar Santamar\u00eda, along with former Cata\u00f1o Mayor F\u00e9lix \u201cel Cano\u201d Delgado Montalvo, agreed with the Federal Prosecutor\u2019s Office to reveal a scheme in which businessmen paid bribes in exchange for contracts,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanjuandailystar.com\/post\/ex-guaynabo-mayor-sentenced-to-63-months-in-jail-in-corruption-case\">San Juan Daily Star expounded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week the DOJ put out another release stating:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The former mayor of the municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for his involvement in a bribery scheme in which he received cash payments in exchange for awarding municipal contracts and expedited payment of invoices related to those contracts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayors of the towns of Rincon, Guayama, Humacao, Aguas Buenas and Trujillo Alto have also been sentenced on Federal bribery charges, the ABC report says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 02\/15\/2024 &#8211; 10:40<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/former-puerto-rico-mayor-gets-5-years-after-being-caught-high-profile-bribery-case\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Puerto Rico Mayor Gets 5 Years After Being Caught In &#8220;High Profile Bribery Case&#8221; A former Puerto Rico mayor faces 5 years in prison&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}