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Noticias con Calle

Top News March 1, 2019

Noticias con Calle

Jay Fonseca

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4.7773 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Top News March 1, 2019

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0:00.0

Good morning, today is Friday, March 1st. My name is Eduardo Isente and these are Puerto Rico's top news.

0:08.0

So we start off with the FBI investigation into the legislature's host employees or their fake employees.

0:18.0

This investigation is gaining strength and momentum and apparently they are pretty close to making a rest. So the FBI

0:26.6

is pretty close to making a rest on the case. There's people from the banking industry helping,

0:34.0

people who have been involved in the case have come forth to speak directly to the FBI after the

0:40.0

FBI announced that if that they were actually investigating the case and that if you had relevant

0:46.8

information and you came forth they will take that into consideration and maybe not

0:56.0

press charges against you.

0:57.3

So they're moved to get more information apparently is paying off and they are pretty close to waking arrest. While all

1:06.3

this is happening, legislators from both parties are talking to the press and

1:12.2

acting as if all legislators were saints and saying we welcome this investigation.

1:18.0

We hope that it goes on and legislators who made this type of corruption,

1:26.7

who did this type of corruption, get punished accordingly.

1:30.3

We all know this is simply a PR measure

1:34.2

and people are actually pretty scared

1:36.7

and things are pretty tense in Puerto Rico's legislature.

1:42.7

Moving on, positive views, HUD just approved the

1:48.4

approved yesterday. The disbursement of 8.5 billion in

1:53.1

additional recovery funds. So Ben Carson, who is the agency

1:57.7

director, came out and said, we are approving these 8.5 billion

2:02.2

dollars in additional recovery.

2:05.2

We are giving the money to the Puerto Rican government, so it's not just a proof, but

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