18 scandals in 33 months

[NewsWhore]

The Leonel Fernandez government has had to face 18 major scandals in just 33 months in office. These issues have forced the President to come to the defense of his administration in the most notorious of cases. The PEME case, which dated back to the first Fernandez administration, was dropped in March. Other cases include the accusation against the head of the Frontier Development Office, Yorman Vasquez, who was accused of extorting money from businessmen in order to obtain exonerations under law 28-01. Then there was the issue of the completion and furnishing of the new Supreme Court Building, a budget that went from RD$400 million to RD$1.0 billion, and was only uncovered after an audit by the Chamber of Accounts. The artificial island, Enade, the case of the former director of the State Businesses Reform Commission, the purchase of equipment for the Police and false papers provided by personnel at the Ministry of Labor are just some of the cases mentioned in the Diario Libre article. Of course, the journalist, Leoncio Compres, ends the article with a mention of the Sun Land case, where US$130 million dollars of debt was somehow left off the books.

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