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SANTO DOMINGO. – Just hours before an impeachment proceeding against the Accounts Chamber’s (CC) 6 remaining judges was to begin today, Freddy Almonte Brito and Luis Yepez Suncar tendered their resignation to the Senate. CC vice president Henry Mejía resigned Tuesday, whereas Jose A. Maceo and Juan A. Lora did so Friday.

Almonte, interviewed by the Z-101 FM morning radio talk show, said he had nothing to regret and was always an entity of moderation within the CC.

The judges who’ve resigned will forego having to appear in today’s Senate hearing, as part of the Congressional probe into alleged irregularities committed in their tenure.

Today the Senate subpoenaed CC president  Andres Terrero and the members Jose A. Gregorio, Alcides B. Lugo, Luis Beras de la Cruz, to appear for questioning.

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Written by: BLANCO, 2 Jul 2008 10:35 AM
From: Dominican Republic
this article deserves NO COMMENT
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Written by: TexasBill, 2 Jul 2008 10:38 AM
From: Dominican Republic
It begins to look more and more like "rats deserting a sinking ship" from my perspective.
If these "ladrones" cannot be "Impeached", what other legal action can be taken against them to bring about JUSTICE and to prevent future similar actions by unscrupulous members of the unit?

Mayhap the Legislative bodies should put some teeth into the anti-corruption laws that currently exist, then take steps to comply with the law themselves instead of merely issuing forth with meaningless rhetoric.

Needless to say, the entire Government needs to be REFORMED over many issues which affect this nation. The problem is, there area too many self-centered, machistic bastards in power who don't give a damn who they hurt by their greedy actions.
That's from the TOP DOWN.

TB
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Written by: juanb, 2 Jul 2008 11:14 AM
From: Dominican Republic
How about if the Senate gives an accounting to the country of exactly what all of these "judges" did? Even the ones who have rewsigned to avoid prosecution.
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Written by: CarlosFranco, 2 Jul 2008 2:32 PM
From: United States

I agree with you TexasBill... these bastards avoid procecution by resigning!!! when in fact they should be tried, now more than ever, if the government is sincere about cracking down on curruption.
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Written by: juanb, 2 Jul 2008 3:17 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Carlos;

Time for us all to face that fact that the government is NOT interested in cracking down on corruption
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Written by: gouletcolonial, 2 Jul 2008 10:14 PM
From: Canada
those guilty of government corruption should get the electric chair as punishment......and God only knows we have enough Government Corruption to warrant building electric bleachers
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Written by: Juansantodomingo, 2 Jul 2008 10:30 PM
From: Dominican Republic
GC even if they passed a law stipulating the electric chair for such acts, they would build in a loophole in the fine print stating that if there was a power failure at the time of intended execution, the villain would be set free. We all know what would happen then.
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Written by: gouletcolonial, 3 Jul 2008 5:44 AM
From: Canada
Juan how unusual a power failure as unusual as a legal loophole
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