The Justice Department’s new plan to crack down on environmental crimes in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands is badly needed to combat corruption and shore up threadbare local agencies, according to Puerto Rico’s former top environmental official.
The agency is organizing a task force that will prosecute environmental violations and cases of waste, fraud, and abuse.
“They desperately need the help,” said Ramón Cruz, who formerly served as deputy director of Puerto Rico’s Environmental Quality Board. “This has a huge impact. It adds some triangulation or redundancy in the investigation of these crimes.”
Last year, the DOJ and ...
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