US lawmaker who oversees Puerto Rico calls for governor to resign after 6 arrested on corruption charges

WASHINGTON – The Democratic lawmaker who chairs the House committee that oversees Puerto Rico called on the island's governor to step down after six people, including Puerto Rico's former secretary of education, were arrested Wednesday on federal fraud charges. 

Former Education Secretary Julia Keleher and Ángela Ávila-Marrero, former head of Puerto Rico's Health Insurance Administration, were arrested on 32 counts of fraud, theft and money laundering, along with two businessmen and two sisters who worked as education contractors.

In the indictment, prosecutors allege that Keleher steered government contracts "through a corrupt bidding process" to an unqualified firm run by Glenda Ponce-Mendoza and Mayra Ponce-Mendoza, with whom she had a "close relationship." 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/11/puerto-rico-corruption-arrests/1701392001/

TED CRUZ

Let's Build the Wall …

WITH EL CHAPO'S $12 BILLION!!!

Ted Cruz is earmarking the billions upon billions of dollars El Chapo's been ordered to fork over to the U.S. to secure the southern border, and he says President Trump's backing his plan.

Like the Prez, the Texas Senator's all about building the wall, and he tells TMZ the next step now that the Mexican drug lord has been sentenced to life in prison … should be to use his $12.6 BILLION fortune to make it happen.

Cruz acknowledges El Chapo's drug money might be difficult to track down, but says there should be no debate over where the cash goes once it's seized.

Ted's been serious about this for a couple years now – he introduced legislation known as the EL CHAPO Act in April 2017, but it died … so he reintroduced it in January.

https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/18/ted-cruz-el-chapo-sentence-billions-the-wall/