DC: The federal oversight board that publicly complained late last month about small Christmas bonuses for Puerto Rico’s government employees is squandering millions of dollars to pay lawyers who charge hundreds of dollars per hour and to hire lobbying firms and public relations firms.
The members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico are also paid lavish salaries.
Taxpayers in Puerto Rico are directly paying the salaries for oversight board employees. Puerto Rican taxpayers are also directly funding the entire $60 million annual budget for the oversight board, which Congress created in 2016 to manage Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy debt repayment.
In its strongly-worded Nov. 27 letter to Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló Nevares, the congressionally-mandated board has argued that providing Christmas bonuses of about $600 each to government employees on the storm-ravaged island would increase “the liquidity strain on the Commonwealth” and exhibit “a lack of fiscal discipline.”
The oversight board’s executive director, Natalie A. Jaresko, receives a salary of $625,000. By way of comparison, Donald Trump earns $400,000 per year as president. read more
First of all, I never heard of government employees getting a “Christmas bonus”. But beyond that, the “fiscal oversight board” is screwing the US taxpayers to an obscene degree. They should all be imprisoned for malfeasance, since Puerto Rico is bankrupt. This is one swamp whose draining is long overdue.
She’s got that smug lois lerner face.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/retiring-dem-rep-gutierrez-paid-wife-430000-campaign-funds-past-seven-years/
We basically bought a huge Bankrupt Company, and we have no desire or even a thought of making it profitable. Their own Government is the main cause and wer’e rewarding them ?
” I want my Oceanfront lot “