Governor of Puerto Rico who endorsed Obama under investigation for corruption and could go to jail

[Herman Munster]

I've read delusional posts here saying that Obama could do well in Puerto Rico because of the governor's endorsement. Umm, no. He's a corrupt scumbag under investigation. The country is 100% hispanic with very close ties to New York. Hillary will win the primary 2:1. It was a caucus but was recently changed to a primary, probably because of the powerful friends Hillary has on the island.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/us/24sanjuan.html

SAN JUAN, P.R. — The rumors wash up against the gray walls of La Fortaleza, the governor’s palace in this city’s colonial quarter, with the regularity of the ocean’s waves. Every few weeks they seem to gather momentum, like a tidal surge, and threaten to overwhelm the place and its occupant, Gov. Aníbal S. Acevedo Vilá.

At one moment, the word on the street is that the governor will be arrested before the weekend. At the next, he will be spared, though several of his close associates will fall.

And so it has gone for more than two years while federal investigators have looked into accusations of campaign finance violations relating to Mr. Acevedo, a Democrat, who is up for re-election this year.

The case has captured the imagination of Puerto Rico’s political class and news media, which have tracked every microscopic development in the investigation with the intensity befitting a place where politics infuses the culture and goes to the heart of Puerto Rican identity.

No movement of the federal grand jury reviewing the evidence has gone undetected, the comings and goings of witnesses have been recorded by the media and analyzed ad nauseam, and leaks abound.

“You can’t spend half an hour in a meeting of politically minded people without someone saying, ‘O.K., who’s going to be indicted, when is he going to be indicted?’ ” said Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, a well-known political analyst and lawyer here. “It’s incredible. Every day, man. One gets sick of it. Ugh!”