“This scandal is the ‘LULAC Gate’ that knocks at the doors of La Fortaleza,” said Popular Democratic Party senatorial candidate Aníbal José Torres in press conference.
[Note: This article was originally posted on December 12th, 2011. The IFNM website was attacked by hackers and many articles are now gone from the archives. As a public service, IFNM is now reposting said articles.]
Claims were filed against the Federal Bureau of Investigations because of the controversial election of the new United Latin American Citizens League (LULAC for its Spanish acronym) president, Margaret Morán, who was allegedly favored by the Puerto Rico delegation through a structured plan created in Fortaleza and paid with public funds.
Jaime Martínez, who was defeated by Morán confirmed to NotiCel that he denounced the irregularities to the FBI and also presented a lawsuit challenging the election. The lawsuit is currently under the consideration of the Fourth Circuit of Appeals in Texas.
“This was a strange election and for me, it was dirty,” said Martínez in a telephone interview with NotiCel.
“They used public funds, and that is known by Elsie Valdés, despite arguing that everything was paid with her money,” he said. Valdés is a senior advisor for the president of LULAC.
Martínez stressed that if it wasn’t for the “boricua” vote, he would have won, because he was the “favorable candidate.” “Because of the Puerto Rican vote and irregular things, I did not win,” he said.
“Jouseph Rivera, who wrote about this, but died, talked to the FBI about this. I also talked to agent Scott Patterson, but I don’t know if that made a difference. Who know what happened (with that claim),” said Martínez.
He charged that there were multiple irregularities and denied that Morán beat him by 70 percent of the total of votes.
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