President Trump is issuing a pardon to Puerto Rico’s former governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, who was beforehand indicted in a federal corruption case, a number of sources confirmed to CBS Information on Friday.
She was arrested in 2022 on bribery fees associated to the financing of her 2020 marketing campaign.
The Justice Division mentioned on the time of her arrest {that a} political guide to Vázquez and the president of the worldwide financial institution had pleaded responsible to collaborating within the bribery scheme.
Vázquez was accused of participating within the scheme from December 2019 by June 2020 with a Venezuelan-Italian financial institution proprietor, a former FBI agent, a financial institution president and a political guide, amongst others.
Final August she pleaded responsible to accepting a marketing campaign donation from a foreigner.
