Word: velez
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When historians hunt for telling moments in the 1996 Donorgate scandal, they may point to a White House coffee in December 1995 when would-be giver RUBEN VELEZ, apparently unaware of the law against contributing in the Executive Mansion, tried to hand over five checks. Velez, Puerto Rico's biggest builder, may have had more than protocol on his mind...
According to interviews and documents obtained by TIME, Velez was angling to buy prime real estate in downtown San Juan, a sale that required approval of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Velez denies that the checks, written by friends and business allies, were intended to strengthen his hand in negotiations with HUD. Nor was that the purpose of a $50,000 donation to the Democratic Party in May 1996. Still, two months later HUD granted him tentative approval to buy the site on an installment plan. But when ANDREW CUOMO became HUD Secretary after the election, the deal...
Empire's leaders had no convincing response to the damning testimony of their chief auditor, Maroa Velez. She told of being "stonewalled" by superiors when she tried to investigate discrepancies between internal books and the financial reports Empire sent to regulators. The company allegedly / overstated losses incurred in providing insurance to poor customers. Those exaggerated losses helped persuade the state legislature to force Empire's competitors to take over some of its least profitable business. Despite Cardone's denials, Manhattan's district attorney has launched a criminal probe to determine whether the tough ex-Marine or his aides falsified records...
...school is being portrayed as a place kidsgo to learn how to kill people," said Rindgejunior Byron Logan, who marched in a peace rallyto the MIT campus last Thursday. Logan says thathe, along with many other students "want to findout what really went on," expressing doubt thatMcHugh, Donovan or Velez actually played thedeadly game...
...whether McHugh, Velez or Donovan could orcould not do something like playing knockout ormurdering a 21-year-old students is something thatthe media is not focusing on, say angered Rindgestudents. Rather the focus is wrongly on howRindge students are players in the game, theyouths charge...