After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last fall, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz was a leftist rock star. The mainstreams’ favorite interviewee, she was regularly heard blaming most of the post-storm crisis on the Trump Administration.

“We are dying, and you (Trump) are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy,” she said during a television conference in early October.

 
However, as many – including yours truly – pointed out at the time, the hurricane hit a country that was already in the throes of a fiscal meltdown. A crumbling infrastructure, the result of decades of government incompetence and corruption, resulted in an island ill-prepared for a natural disaster. So naturally, as an old supervisor of mine used to tell us: “Fail to plan; plan to fail.”
 

13 months ago is ancient history to the media, so when this ↓ story popped up last week, it was totally ignored (especially since it debunks their original anti-Trump narrative) ~ City Council Offices, Headed by San Juan Mayor, Have Been Raided by the FBI ~

Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and her administration are under fire for allegedly obstructing critical supplies from reaching victims of the category-4 hurricane that leveled much of the tiny U.S. territory nearly nine months ago.
 
The FBI reportedly launched the investigation following a February lawsuit filed by Yadira Molina, the former director of procurement. Molina claims she was retaliated against for reporting “alleged irregular acts” to the local comptroller.

 
This appears to be just the latest development in an ongoing federal investigation. In other under-reported news – more than three months ago – there were actually a couple of actual arrests made ~ Puerto Rico mayor, two others arrested on corruption charges. This wasn’t Cruz, it was Miguel Ortiz, mayor of Sabana Grande ~

A mayor and two former government officials in Puerto Rico face public corruption charges in separate cases that involve a total of $8 million in federal and local funds, authorities said Thursday. The suspects are the mayor of the southwest town of Sabana Grande and the former directors of finance for the northern town of Toa Baja […]
 
U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez told reporters that the former officials from Toa Baja are accused of using nearly $5 million worth of federal funds to pay the town’s public employees and municipal contractors.
 
“Not only is that illegal, it’s immoral,” she said.
 
Officials said former finance director Victor Cruz Quintero deposited some $2.5 million worth of funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development into the town’s general and payroll accounts in October 2014.

 
As Rodriguez say it is immoral. The people of Puerto Rico deserve much better than these detestable politicians.

 
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