Regresa Fernando Tonos al Capitolio como legislative assessor Javier Aponte Dalmau

Representative Fernando Tonos, conviction for corruption in 1995 tras execute a ghost staffing scheme in its legislative office, assessing the Mayor’s door in the Senado, Javier Aponte Dalmau.

Tonos fue el first legal in Puerto Rico to go to prison, declared guilty of 343 serious charges, for which he received a sentence of 17 years. Only a year of imprisonment and the rest in probation. Also, you have to pay $ 206,536.

See the quote Aponte Dalmau who confirmed Tonos’ recruitment in his office on $ 6,000 mans as assessor in legislative processes. The contract is based on the fact that the past quarter has produced various schemes of corruption in the Capitol known as “kickbacks” and at least two schemes of ghost employees.

“Pues mira, él cumplió hace muchísimos años. Has been a assessor in distinguished companies and has its business. I believe, in my opinion, that there is a person who complied with a dispute, failed at the moment to have the opportunity to reinvent. He is a person with much legislative experience ”, says Aponte Dalmau a El Nuevo Día.

When the question is raised whether Tonos’ recruitment of any kind sends a message equated with countries on which compensation is paid at the governmental level to a person convicted of corruption, Aponte Dalmau responds that Tonos has the right to win the life.

“The fall in a moment at the State, but it is a person who has much to contribute,” responds Aponte Dalmau, who also met with representative Charlie Hernández as legislative assessor for a fee of $ 5,000. This contract will be charged against the request of the Regulations and Calendar Commission, while the salary of Tonos will be charged against the request of the Aponte Dalmau Legislative Office.

Aponte Dalmau recorded that his father, the fenced-in alcove of Carolina, José Aponte de la Torre, who had the offer of Tonos his first labor experience through the court when the municipal mandate contracted to a company for the working job.

‘Luego de eso has maintained a personal relationship with him, but no work. Fue in this process of the campaign that I helped in the coordination”, Dijo Aponte Dalmau.

Reacciona Tonos

In an interview with El Nuevo Día, Tonos assurur que pudo haber regressado al Capitolio mucho antes, pero lo hace para asesorar a Aponte Dalmau debido al vínculo te tiene su familia.

” N Javier lo conozco hace muchos años y también a su padre. I can work with the debit that my office is in Carolina. Have an emotion to accept when many years come here and have a proposal: assisted Javier in the campaign being representative and did not work with him because at the moment he intends to take the lead.. Working with him in the campaign because he solicited me for it too is a compromise with his father, who antes de failecer me dijo who always depends on Javier”, Dijo Tonos.

“I have a debt of gratitude to him and his family,” he said.

Tonos, who presided over the Committees of Vivienda and Asuntos de la Juventud, stated that he understood that the “cariño” of the city and that he had demonstrated his compromise with the residents of the Carolina senatorial district.

Signal that his message to the Citizenship is that consideration is being given to progress in the Legislature.

“A year of 25 years has passed this process that has happened and the same catalog as justice and without entering in the merits, the important thing is that you regress here. It is my support, given all of me and what has been happening since I was elected to the Legislature, ”he said, arguing that he has a record of needing persons, particularly the steps taken by Irma and Maria.

“The people know where they are and what they are, I am my work and my mission”, dijo. “I would like to help the senator and the country … Regardless of the situation that happened, I am a person who knows the people”, he said.