{"id":67416,"date":"2018-07-12T06:35:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67416"},"modified":"2018-07-12T06:35:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:35:45","slug":"do-you-remember-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67416","title":{"rendered":"Do You Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when the media was crawling over every square foot of wind-ravaged Puerto Rican soil looking for examples of Trump administration incompetence and corruption, making a hero out of San Juan’s idiot Democrat mayor in the process, if only briefly?<\/p>\n

Where\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the media now<\/a>?<\/p>\n

A mayor and two former government officials in\u00a0Puerto Rico<\/a>\u00a0face public corruption charges in separate cases that involve a total of $8 million in federal and local funds, authorities said Thursday. The suspects are the mayor of the southwest town of Sabana Grande and the former directors of finance for the northern town of Toa Baja, which has struggled to pay its employees amid an 11-year recession.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez told reporters that the former officials from Toa Baja are accused of using nearly $5 million worth of federal funds to pay the town’s public employees and municipal contractors.<\/p>\n

“Not only is that illegal, it’s immoral,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Puerto Rico – aka “A Warm Minneapolis” – would be considered a “Failed State” if it weren’t a US territory.<\/p>\n

But unless the “news” can “denormalize” Trump, they really don’t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when the media was crawling over every square foot of wind-ravaged Puerto Rican soil looking for examples of Trump administration incompetence and corruption, making a hero out of San Juan’s idiot Democrat mayor in the process, if only briefly? Where\u00a0is\u00a0the media now? A mayor and two former government officials in\u00a0Puerto Rico\u00a0face public corruption charges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67417,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67416\/revisions\/67417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}