Resurrecting the CB

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Members of the opposition party will not let the Base Committee (CB) payroll scandal lie, and have submitted a complaint at the Attorney General's office against six government officials for their involvement in the scandal. Representatives from the PRD, PRSC, PRI and Alianza Popular submitted the complaint against Victor Diaz Rua (Ministry of Public Works), Salvador Jimenez (Ministry of Agriculture), Hector Rodriguez Pimentel (INDRHI), Francisco Rodriguez (INAPA), Mariano German Mejia (CAASD) and Maria Taina Gautreaux (Comision de Desarrollo Barrial). The CB scandal deals with the payment of RD$3,000 and RD$4,000 monthly checks out of state funds to PLD ruling party members without them actually doing a job in government. In March, Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa stated that this wasn't part of a re-election campaign and that the people who receive these funds would vote for Leonel Fernandez anyway because they are PLD members. He argued that if the program had been political in nature they would have "hired" non-PLD members in order to guarantee that they vote for Fernandez.

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