Ex-Puerto Rico Governor Is Arrested on Corruption Charges
- Vazquez allegedly accepted cash to replace financial regulator
- Wanda Vazquez was governor of US Commonwealth from 2019-2020
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Puerto Rico’s former governor and secretary of justice, Wanda Vazquez, was arrested Thursday on allegations she allowed an international bank operating on the island to hand-pick a financial regulator in exchange for $300,000 to finance her failed 2020 election campaign.
Vazquez, 62, who was governor from 2019-2020, faces seven counts of corruption, US Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico Stephen Muldrow said in a press conference.