FBI raids San Juan city offices weeks after Trump alleges corruption

[sandensea]

Source: The Hill

FBI agents raided San Juan's municipal building on Tuesday amid an investigation into purchasing practices conducted by city officials, including Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz.

A spokesman for the agency told news service elnuevodia.com that Tuesday's raid was related to an ongoing investigation into whether the mayor's office and other city officials had shown favoritism when the city agreed to a contract with the company BR Solutions for $4.7 million over two years.

BR Solutions is owned by Leonel Pereira O'Neill, a Puerto Rican businessman who has donated to the campaigns of several local politicians, including Cruz's, according to the news service.

The raid came several weeks after President Trump singled out Cruz while attacking Puerto Rican officials for the slow recovery efforts on the island, accusing the municipal officials of allowing widespread corruption.

"It was a total mess, it was corrupt - couldn't be worse," Trump said in an interview last month.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-raids-san-juan-city-offices-weeks-after-trump-alleges-corruption/ar-BBOtgeS

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San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz. A Trump target?

[RockRaven]

1. There's plenty of corruption in PR (not unlike DC, btw, esp w/ Trump) but Trump's comments undermine

the legitimacy of anything the FBI now does in this regard. He's a fecal-Midas.

[sandensea]

6. Yes. Cheeto's definitely not one to point fingers as far as corruption.

Or anything, really.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Yulia? Yulin?

All part of the Paul Manafort playbook, I suppose.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko

Tymoshenko finished second in the Ukrainian presidential election of 2010 runoff, losing by 3.5 percentage points to the winner, Viktor Yanukovych. In the first round she had also finished second.

After the 2010 presidential election, a number of criminal cases were brought against her. On 11 October 2011 she was convicted of embezzlement and abuse of power, and sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay the state $188 million. The prosecution and conviction were viewed as politically biased by many governments – most prominently the European Union, who repeatedly called for the release of Tymoshenko as the primary condition for signing the EU Association Agreement, the US, and international organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.[13] She was released on 22 February 2014, in the concluding days of the Euromaidan revolution, following a revision of the Ukrainian criminal code that effectively decriminalized the actions for which she was imprisoned. The decision was supported by 322 votes.[14][15] She was officially rehabilitated on 28 February 2014.[15][16][17][18] Just after the Euromaidan revolution, the Supreme Court of Ukraine and European Court of Human Rights closed the case and found that "no crime was committed".[19][20][21]

[sandensea]

7. Good point.

This was lawfare written all over it.

The use of the judiciary and law enforcement against opponents on, shall we say, Trumped-up charges.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

23. Trump said, "Ultimately I'm in charge of what the Justice Department does."

This sounds like Donnie Two Scoops using the FBI to extract revenge on a woman he considers a political enemy because she didn't worship at his feet during the Maria crisis. "Oh, thank you for the paper towel roll, President Trump. You are a kind and beneficent leader, and we are lucky to have you. Perhaps the next time you come you and Melania can hand out little bottles of water?"

[Marthe48]

3. another attack on someone who dares to stand up to trumpopovich

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I wonder what Mr. Mueller is doing these days? I hope to god he is doing something. So sick of the mobster rule we have.

[sandensea]

8. That's what it looks like.

A very Banana Republic move, from a very banana colored despot.

Mueller's probably next.

[Hekate]

4. Jesus Christ in a trailer hitch. I hate Trump and his endless corruption. nt

[sandensea]

9. I tell you.

When I heard Cheeto bitch about somebody else's supposed corruption, I nearly spat my yerba mate through my nose.

[Achilleaze]

5. republican fascism, Inc. is on the march

attacking Americans

[sandensea]

10. Fascism 101:

Make an example of your political opponents; choose someone prominent, but relatively powerless.

[hedda_foil]

11. Fucking toadstool.

[atreides1]

12. Amazing

After the Kavanaugh debacle, anything that the FBI is involved in...is highly questionable!

Wray turned out to be nothing more then a puppet and the FBI agents are nothing more then monkeys dancing to Trump's accordion!

[Wellstone ruled]

13. So it begins,

Trump's is doing a Nixon.

[elmac]

14. well, the FBI helped tRump get elected

so being the brown shirts for the Nazi doesn't surprise me.

[sandensea]

17. If Cheeto keeps blowing kisses at his FBI directors,

his knuckle-draggers will start wondering about him.

[niyad]

15. so the fbi is acting like attack dogs against anybody who speaks against bloato?

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[sandensea]

18. Cheeto must've gotten pointers from all his despot friends.

Putin, Duterte, Macri - they're all infamous for their use of lawfare against opponents.

The Saudis, they just kill them.

[sakabatou]

16. That's rich!

[ResistantAmerican17]

19. Two words

Whitefish energy

[sandensea]

21. Must be enough to give Cheeto a Zinke-ing feeling.

[Botany]

20. Fucking mob boss crap

Trump complaining about corruption is like somebody who buys a house next to
a cattle ranch and then complains about the smell and all the cattle mooing.

[lancelyons]

22. Is he using the FBI to attack political foes?

This is another thing the DEMS need to investigate. Using the FBI for political retribution.

[sandensea]

24. Cheeto must've gotten pointers from all his despot friends.

Putin, Duterte, Macri - they're all well known for their use of lawfare against opponents.

The Saudis, they just kill them.

[Totally Tunsie]

25. tRump always feels bigger when he can take someone who is already down

then kick them down further. Is he just pissed he's not getting a piece of the pie? Asshole.

[appleannie1943]

26. He is scared to death of women with power. Hates them with a passion.

In his view, women should only be sex toys or eye candy, nothing else. And certainly not in positions of power.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

30. Make no mistake,

this is not about corruption. It is about his naked hatred of Carmen Yulin Cruz. He will never get over her insulting him on national television about his pathetic response to the hurricane and its aftermath. And the administration is still not responding to the needs of these American citizens.

Look at how he has attacked women of color. His behavior is so transparent.

[appleannie1943]

32. It is also the reason he hates Elizabeth Warren

[.99center]

27. "A spokesman for the agency told news service "

Maybe they should amend the Hatch Act so there's no confusion about it applying to investigations relating to Democrats?

Seriously, why the fuck is a FBI spokesmen making public statements about an ongoing investigation involving a high profile Dem, less then a month away from the election?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Is the FBI becoming Trump's Gestapo?

[bluestarone]

29. Really sounds like it!

Along with the Kavanaugh BULLSHIT investigation ( where FBI states that's what RUMP wanted them to investigate) We had a good FBI at one time BUT I really DO NOT trust them anymore!!!

[Judi Lynn]

31. pResident Hump wants to harm Mayor Cruz because she didn't suck up to him, didn't flinch

when he started insulting her.

This seems like typical dirtbag behavior, taking advantage of the power he has abused and using it against people who won't bow down to him.

Remember what he told Leslie Stahl when she asked him a tough question he didn't like: "I'm the president and you're not."

What a mighty disgusting human sized piece of trash he is.

He embarrasses our country, he embarrasses mankind, he is an embarrassment to the entire planet.

Hope as he persecutes Mayor Cruz, more and more people communicate their support of her to her, and the more at peace with herself she will feel every day. She has been an excellent official in a terrible position.