FBI Is Probing Corruption in Puerto Rico Government Contracts

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing potential corruption and favoritism in how Puerto Rico awarded some government contracts and arrests may be forthcoming, according to the bureau’s special agent in charge on the island, Douglas Leff.

Speaking June 27 on local station Radio Isla, Leff said prosecutors would have final say as to when enough evidence had been gathered to justify arrests.

The remarks come during an extraordinary week in which Puerto Rican Treasury Secretary Raul Maldonado used a radio interview to disclose an “institutional mafia” within his own secretariat, revealed an FBI probe into the matter, ...