Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

[propublica@newsie.social]

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #PuertoRico #USPolitics #Law #Legal #Fraud #Election #Prison #Vote

[farbel@mas.to]

@ProPublica Your headline is misleading. According to the article, they were given instructions to drop certain parts of the investigation only days after the election, before either Trump or Gonzalez-Colon had taken power and appointed their own people.

[peachmcd@union.place]

@ProPublica

"#VoterFraud for me, but not for thee"

[hakeemg@mastodon.social]

@farbel @ProPublica

Someone didn't read the article.

Soon after Trump took office, the lead prosecutor, Jorge Matos, was told by a supervisor to take the investigation no further, according to four people familiar with the case.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@ProPublica
Wow, “every accusation is a confession” too much? \s

[farbel@mas.to]

@HakeemG @ProPublica "But as federal prosecutors prepared an indictment against the inmates and staff in November 2024 — just days after Trump won the election and González-Colón clinched the governorship — they received a surprising directive. Their bosses in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico instructed them to exclude the voting-related counts against the inmates and all charges against the prison staff." Even the bit you cite happened before Trump installed anyone.

[hakeemg@mastodon.social]

@farbel @ProPublica

Those two events aren't mutually exclusive. I read the entire article.

[farbel@mas.to]

@HakeemG @ProPublica as did I

[hakeemg@mastodon.social]

@farbel @ProPublica

Clearly not.