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A sister company of Puerto Rico’s prison health care provider maintains multimillion-dollar contracts with the city of St. Louis and a Virginia county.

The Office of the Inspector General has flagged unusual procurement practices at the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which hired professional services through purchase orders — sometimes without withholding taxes — and paid invoices that lacked detailed descriptions of the work performed.

Verdict: False

In response to a Centro de Periodismo Investigativo lawsuit, the agency acknowledged it has "no report" from the company owned by New Progressive Party communications consultant Ramón Alejandro Pabón García. The contractor has secured over $5 million in government contracts individually and through several companies.

Physician Correctional, a company known for wrongly authorizing the release of femicide Hermes Ávila Vázquez, has been facing serious accusations for years but refuses to answer questions.