Honduras president admits his party skimmed funds

[Judi Lynn]

Honduras president admits his party skimmed funds
2015-06-04 11:14

Tegucigalp - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Wednesday admitted his conservative ruling National Party accepted money that had been misappropriated from Social Security, a scandal that has sparked calls for him to step down.

"Just like everyone, I am outraged," Hernandez said, pledging investigators would "get to the bottom of all of this."

"I am not sure if it is (the equivalent of $136 000)," Hernandez said, seeking to downplay the amount of the misappropriation from the Honduran Social Security Institute. The amount pales in comparison to allegations about the scope of the skimming, and who was involved.

Opposition members have charged that the president received about $90m of more than $300m they say were skimmed from Social Security for his 2013 campaign.

More:
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Honduras-president-admits-his-party-skimmed-funds-20150604

(Right-wingers must be proud they were able to pull off their dirty coup against former Pres. Zelaya.)

LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141110308

[drray23]

1. looks like they are farther ahead in honduras than we are here.

At least he admitted to it. Our political system is churning money hand over fist and the vast majority of our politicians are fine with it. Sanders seem to be the only one who made it a central point of his campaign. Hillary did say she would consider changing citizen united even if it meant a constitutional amendment but she did not seem very motivated about it. Truth to be told I am not sure how one reverses it. Passing a constitutional amendment will be unreachable even for Bernie if he wins. We would first have to work at state level to retake legislatures to go the convention route or have 2/3 in both house and senate.