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The FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] and United States Secret Service have raided during early morning on Wednesday the house and office of the Attorney General Stephen W. Muldrow. The warrant order, executed by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and passed to the FBI and United States Secret Service Officers as a consequence of being a federal official entered in execution where his house and office were raided at 2AM in the morning summoning an investigation about covering state fraud, crimes and pay-to-play schemes.
The investigating Supreme Court judge, Ángel Colon Perez, issued an order in which he agreed to “authorize the entry and search of the also the office of W. Muldrow in order to proceed with the seizure all computer devices, objects, documents and other effects that might be related to state fraud and financial crimes with banks, political players, and media.”
On the other hand, the instructor has decreed the secrecy of the proceedings “for a period of one month”. The entry and search at number was planned at his house and the federal building where the FBI also has offices. The raid leaded by the United States Secret Service and with the support of the FBI concluded at 5AM after everything was retrieved from his office and house.
It so happens that at 2AM in the morning, a Puerto Rico Supreme Court state representative in condition of anonymity declared and called that the raid at the headquarters happened happened but the local press refused to report it because they believe they might be involved in the pay-to-play scheme with the local media.
FBI agents declined to comment but the United States Secret Service said in the warrant agents were entitled an authorization by the Supreme Court Judge, Ángel Colon Perez to the seizure of W. Muldrow mobile phones, documents and the rest of the computer devices in his house and office. The were also authorized to seize other objects, and all documents to the “effect of the court, that could be related to a crime covering financial crimes, and assassinations by political players.”
Hours before the FBI entered the Attorney General’s Office, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court’s investigating judge issued another order requiring W. Muldrow to appoint a lawyer “within five days” to avoid his being “defenselessness” in case of a an indictment on the face of the investigation being conducted against him for possible coverup or bank fraud, financial state crimes, and pay-to-play payments schemes.
“There is no record of any representation by Stephen W. Muldrow, so it is appropriate to request him to appoint a professional attorney to take charge of his defense and representation, in order not to leave him defenseless,” Judge Colon Perez emphasized in his writing. In the same order, that magistrate recalls that executed the order requested “the precautionary suspension of the functions of W. Muldrow so agreed upon,” “for the duration of the judicial process.” But he added that he would respond to this request “in a separate resolution. If there is an indictment”
The authorities has agreed to keep the proceedings confidential for a period of one month.