:format(png)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gfrmedia/TCPWIOSKRZDLDCAZSTNLAXW65M.jpg "Sentenced to six months in prison by the Secretary of Recreation and Sports Ramón Orta")
The Secretary of the Department of Recreation and Sports (DRD), Ramón Orta, was sentenced this month to six months in prison as part of the criminal justice agreement to avoid being judged on charges of corruption.
Además, the functionary is confined to his residence for 12 months both the supervision of an official a couple with six months in prison. We will also be using an electronic monitor at all times.
The judge Pedro A. Delgado Hernández, of the Federal Tribunal in the District of San Juan, read the verdict during the visit that took into account the presence of Orta, who was accompanied by his lawyers Francisco Rebollo and José A. Fusté.
Rebollo presented three objections to the Report Presentation (PSR, by its English flags), without embarrassment, was denied by the judge Delgado Hernández. Asimismo, arguing during an allotment to consider the juvenile antithesis of the case that its client did not benefit from public funds illegally, that the services performed by the governor and the governor of Puerto Rico were not lost.
“Orta has sufrido suficiente. He was a young man respected by a promising career, but everything has changed since the time the cargo was fired.”, Imploró Rebollo.
In June 2017, Orta was arrested together with other people for 50 criminal charges for conspiracy, conspiracy, robbery of federal funds, electronic fraud, postal fraud, aggravated identity robbery and money laundering.
It was the only one of the group that was determined to be judged by a jury. Three weeks since the start of the process in 2019, Delgado has been informed that there is an acceptance agreement. The plea bargain details that out of a sum of $ 3.9 million allocated to programs for the benefit of children and adolescents, $ 799,940 were used for one fine. Orta is exposed to a maximum sentence of 10 years if he is declared guilty.
“During this time, he has been silenced by respecting the tribunal and the trial. It is difficult to digest coma has affected my family. Han sido largos meses in the example sumed up to the recent loss of my father who learned the importance of respecting the processes. I express my deepest appreciation for not taking on a more active role in the administrative processes within the DRD “, manifest Orta in a written statement.
The victims were charged with embezzlement of a $ 9.9 million embezzlement that resulted in the fraudulent obstruction of federal funds administered by the Department of Education and the Federal Vivienda Federal, with proposals for management and work.
It was located on the mandate of the DRD, including the incumbent governor Alejandro García Padilla.