FBI raids San Juan city offices weeks after Trump alleges corruption

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Source: The Hill

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 10/16/18 11:40 AM EDT

FBI agents raided San Juan's municipal building on Tuesday amid an investigation into purchasing practices used by city officials, including Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.

Video posted on Twitter shows several uniformed FBI agents proceeding into the building Tuesday morning. Local journalist Luis Guardiola noted in a tweet that dozens of FBI agents were involved in the raid.

A spokesman for the agency told news service elnuevodia.com that Tuesday's raid was related to an ongoing investigation into whether the mayor's office and other city officials had shown favoritism when the city agreed to a contract with the company BR Solutions for $4.7 million over two years.

BR Solutions is owned by Leonel Pereira O'Neill, a Puerto Rican businessman who has donated to the campaigns of several local politicians, including Cruz's, according to the news service.

"The raid helps us to confirm whether the allegations of irregularities are substantiated or not," FBI spokesman Carlos Osario told the website.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/411618-fbi-raids-san-juan-city-offices-weeks-after-trump-alleges-corruption

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So are the FBI going to raid the office of Trump Tower............................for fucking fraud...................

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Doesn't seem suspicious *at all*

We know that Trump doesn't like Mayor Cruz *at all*

[FM123]

4. Yep, so obvious his disdain for her (I, on the other hand think she's kind of nifty)

Imagine if she ran against him in 2020 - his head would explode so hard there would be no amount of paper towels to clean up that mess!

[ffr]

2. Whoops! Dup.

See about eight headlines down.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142180275

[rockfordfile]

3. Democrats should investigate Trump over this. He's up to his eyeballs

[apnu]

5. Sounds like Trump is digging for internal dirt and blabbing about it

The investigation has been on-going for 2 years, but Trump recently bleats about it. Sounds to me like he's got people digging into whatever the FBI is doing and trying to find ways to weaponize it.

What a POS Trump is.

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6. Locking

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