Pedro Pierluisi

The Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) — imposed by the federal government to enforce fiscal discipline over the Puerto Rico government and its agencies — has gone a year without publishing some of its members’ financial disclosure reports, as required by the federal PROMESA law. The board also has not published the financial disclosures of Gov. Jenniffer González, who is subject to the requirement as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the board.

Seven years after the deaths caused by Hurricane María, the Puerto Rican government has yet to agree on a comprehensive plan to identify and mobilize electricity-dependent individuals during disasters like Tropical Storm Ernesto. The Governor now insists that such a registry must be created.

Many government contractors living in the United States have donated to Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi. The only apparent relationship that most of them have with Puerto Rico is working for a company with a government contract.

A Government supplement includes misleading information about the number of schools. Also, about the investment in sports facilities and the number of municipalities that would benefit.

Héctor Joaquín Sánchez Álvarez convocó a cuatro empleados del Departamento de Educación, que servían de jurado en el Premio de Maestro y Director del Año 2022, para decirles a quiénes debían favorecer.

Aside from the public housing management business, for which federal authorities are investigating Walter and Eduardo Pierluisi Isern, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi’s cousins, the Pierluisi Isern and Pierluisi González-Coya families have more than 20 active companies in real estate, consulting and business and real estate management.

Far from slowing the pace of construction on Puerto Rico’s coasts to address climate change, as experts have requested, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi’s administration hit the accelerator to approve construction permits along the coasts.

A month after Gov. Pedro Pierluisi eliminated the key protection measures related to COVID-19, virus-related deaths in Puerto Rico saw a rebound that nearly reached the level of the highest peak of mortality of the entire pandemic.

The investment firms that are waiting to collect the $72 billion debt from the U.S. Commonwealth and its corporations have separated into two groups: those who are against and those who are in favor of the restructuring of the debt or that the island be included in Chapter 9 of the federal Bankruptcy Law. Politicians from both parties that are members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, which has to evaluate the Chapter 9 measure for Puerto Rico and held a hearing in regards to this issue in September 2015, have received $327,250 in donations from the mutual fund and hedge fund companies that hold the islands bonds