As reports surfaced of an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump, many Americans may have missed reports of an FBI investigation of a different chief executive that went down just a week earlier.
Last Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that the FBI had arrested Puerto Rico's former governor, Wanda Vázquez, at her home in San Juan. A grand jury indicted Vázquez and several co-conspirators on charges of bribery and wire fraud. Prosecutors allege she conspired with Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan banker, and others to secure donations for her re-election campaign. The indictment claims that, in exchange for financial support, Vázquez promised to appoint banking regulators of Herrera's choice to the island's top banking watchdog (which was investigating Herrera at the time).
