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04-07-2009, 01:30 PM
The president of the Senate Ethics Commission, Wilton Guerrero said yesterday that drastic penalties would be applied against Senator Alejandro Williams (PLD-San Pedro de Macoris) if the commission confirms his involvement in intimidation and harassment of journalists. Guerrero (PLD-Peravia) expects Williams to be in the Dominican Republic this coming 14 April for questioning. He was recently accused of harassing journalists Margarita Cordero (7dias.com.do), Maria Isabel Soldevila (Listin Diario) and Norma Sheppard (Radio Mil) to obtain information on the source of "the rumor" that he was the subject of an investigation by Medicaid officers in New York. Williams owns and supervises eight dental clinics in New York. Interviewed in New York by TV journalist Alicia Ortega of El Informe on Channel 7, who traveled to the city for the interview, he said that he had hired private investigator Marcos Martinez, who was accompanied by his cousin when visiting the journalists. Guerrero says that with his absence, Williams is disrespectful to his constituency, the Congress, the PLD and the people. Williams told Ortega that he was being discriminated against in the Senate because he is not the only one who is absent from his congressional duties.
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