PR-Anon here
This is a developing story.
This morning the Puerto Rico FBI arrested the following 3 people:
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The managing partner of global accounting firm BDO in Puerto Rico, Fernando Scherrer
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The ex-secretary of PR Health and Human Services (ASES in Spanish), Angela Avila
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The ex-secretary of PR Dept of Education, Julia Keleher
For those who do not know BDO is a very large accounting firm; it can be considered a global powerhouse in accounting and is usually well insulated with their army of lawyers. For the managing partner to be arrested the FBI has to have had pretty damning evidence. Here is a link to his bio on BDO http://www.bdopr.com/en-gb/our-people/fernando-scherrer
Angela Avila had quit her position at ASES a short 3 weeks ago when the first political booms happened here in PR, but that obviously did not help her. The PR HHS handles the PR version of Medicaid and that system seems to always have problems and run out of money, surprise, surprise. This is very interesting timing as just yesterday Congress had been discussing giving PR $1.2 billion for Medicaid.
Julia Keleher ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Keleher ) was the PR department of Education from January 2, 2017 to April 1, 2019. She quit on April fool's day, interesting. She was arrested this morning in Washington DC. The Dept of Education is the PR Dept with the largest budget, at around $1.6 billion dollars, yet the condition of most schools in PR are worse than in many inner cities; low salaries for teachers, old text books, no computers in most schools, some classrooms are still destroyed from Hurricane Maria, etc.
Please take a look at her Wikipedia bio as she has been involved in many activities with children in PR, DC, Pennsylvania and California. There is something fishy about this lady. No pun intended.
So far I have only found Spanish articles on the arrests. Will Edit and Update as things progress here.
https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/agentesfederalesarrestanaangelaavilaexdirectoraejecutivadeases-2504506/
https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/arrestanalaexsecretariadeeducacionjuliakeleher-2504510/
EDIT 1: The FBI just went into the PR Treasury Dept and took possession of many computers including those used by the recently fired PR Treasury Secretary, Raul Maldonado.
BTW, the two ladies that were arrested this morning, Keleher and Avila, actually managed close to 50% of the total budget of the Government of PR as Education and ASES are the two departments with the largest budgets.
EDIT 2: The governor of PR is currently on vacation in Europe. Yesterday several internal text messages between people in his administration, on the app Telegram, were leaked in which he and his people discussed him going on a "made-up vacation" and leaving the PR Secretary of Justice as the interim governor as a "taunt" against the president of the PR Senate.
In these texts they also ridicule and speak quite rudely about Jennifer Gonzalez, the representative (commissioner resident) of PR in Congress. These attacks began when she attended Mike Pence's event in Miami for Hispanics for Trump. She has publicly began to express support for Donald Trump and contradicting many of the falsehoods the PR governor and the mayor of San Juan have been saying about Trump regarding PR.
EDIT 3: Press conference will be held by the FBI PR today at 11am
Edit 4: FBI press conference in progress. We are looking at Fraud, embezzlement, Wire fraud, Money laundering and other charges to several of the pople. There were arrests in PR and DC and people are being arrested in Connecticut. First English article on at least the ex PR Education director arrest out
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2019/07/Puerto-rico-education-Keleher-arrested.html
EDIT 5: First English Article on the arrests:
https://caribbeanbusiness.com/former-puerto-rico-education-and-health-insurance-secretaries-and-president-of-bdo-accounting-firm-arrested/
EDIT 6: Six people were arrested today under 32 charges. Fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, electronic fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to launder money. Tens of millions of dollars were involved in the all cases.
EDIT 7: Here is the indictment on the arrests today
https://www.scribd.com/document/416428776/Un-Gran-Jurado-federal-acusa-a-varios-exfuncionarios
EDIT 8: The main Spanish-language Newspaper in PR decided to run the article on the arrests in English as it seems that there is a great demand for it. Here it is:
https://www.elnuevodia.com/english/english/nota/alookatthesixpeopleindictedbythefbioncorruptioncharges-2504655/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1562793245
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[–] 19661579? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I hope that American Samoa is the next swamp to be drained; lots of corruption here.