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File: Puerto Rico Senate made ‘extravagant’ purchases

File: Puerto Rico Senate made ‘extravagant’ purchases
File: Puerto Rico Senate made ‘extravagant’ purchases


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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s Comptroller Administrative center launched a record Wednesday pronouncing the island’s Senate made just about $30,000 price of “extravagant, over the top and pointless” purchases from 2013 to 2020.

The record comes because the U.S. territory tries to emerge from the most important municipal chapter in U.S. historical past and stays underneath the attention of a federal keep watch over board overseeing the island’s budget. Puerto Rico declared in 2015 that it was once not able to pay its greater than $70 billion public debt.

The record discovered that the pieces purchased incorporated a $2,545 settee, two chandeliers price $1,200 every, 3 chairs valued at $675 every, two laptops price greater than $9,000 and an $870 console desk, amongst different issues.

The Comptroller Administrative center stated it wasn’t transparent whether or not any effort was once made to touch the Senate’s warehouse to peer if it had any of the furnishings sought through a former legislator who was once now not recognized.

As well as, $8,200 was once spent to shop for 225 pink shirts for a 2015 carrying tournament that already incorporated legit shirts, the record stated.

“This expense became out to be pointless, as it was once of no need to the general public,” the record stated.

The workplace additionally discovered that the Senate paid greater than $16,000 to replace on-line techniques, however the ones have been by no means put in.

The record stated the Senate improperly spent just about $75,000 on health insurance for 10 cops serving as bodyguards for political leaders when the ones officials already had their very own insurance coverage by the use of the police division.

The record issued more than a few suggestions, together with that the president of the Senate ensure that such spending isn’t repeated.

Those that served as president of Puerto Rico’s Senate right through the years coated through the comptroller’s investigation may now not be in an instant reached for remark. A spokesman for the present Senate president, José Luis Dalmau, stated he wasn’t in an instant to be had for remark.

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