Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila was charged today with 19 counts in a campaign finance probe, which included a conspiracy to violate U.S. federal campaign laws and give false testimony to the FBI.(what the hell was he thinking when coming up with that plan? seriously!)
The indictment also charged 12 others associated with Acevedo's Popular Democratic Party as a result of a two-year grand jury investigation, acting U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said.
The 13 are accused of conspiring to illegally raise money to pay off Acevedo's campaign debts from his 2000 campaign to be the U.S. island territory's nonvoting member of Congress. I would not join this little scheme just to help a man pay off his campaign debts, they're his debts not everyone elses, so those that decided to help made a bad choice this time.
Acevedo, who is running for re-election as governor, will not be arrested, Rodriguez said. In my opinion I would have him arrested and strip him of his ability to run for re-election because what he did is not just something we an say is a forgive and forget case. But at least five others named in the indictment were led in handcuffs into the U.S. federal building in San Juan early Thursday morning.
"The governor will be permitted to turn himself in deference to his position," she said.
Acevedo has called the campaign finance probe a case of political persecution by federal officials, partly for his criticism of a September 2005 FBI raid in which a fugitive militant Puerto Rican independence leader was killed. Yea yea yea.... nothing but excuses just to give him a reason for his stupid acts.
His allegation has support in Puerto Rico, where many feel a deep-rooted nationalism and hostility toward the U.S. federal government. How stupid of them, they should realize that they should not hate our government because at least we never decided to make that territory another state, because then they would follow even stricter laws which is what they hate.
A Harvard-educated attorney and career politician, Acevedo, 45, served in Washington as the island's nonvoting delegate to Congress, and was elected governor in 2004 after campaigning on an anti-corruption platform.
Acevedo's party favors maintaining the island's semiautonomous relationship with the U.S. mainland. His leading opponent in this year's governor's race favors making Puerto Rico the 51st state. I wonder what that would be like, we would have to have our flags remade, history books rewritten, so many things would be affected. We'll see how this case goes for their governor, he'll probably get away with it.
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