SANTO DOMINGO.- The president of the Senate Ethics Commission said his colleague Alejandro Williams’ behavior is unacceptable for senators, and that if he admits before them the allegations against him, the sanctions would be drastic.
Wilton Guerrero said Williams’ repeated refusal to appear before the Senate is irresponsible and a lack of respect for the Senate, his companions, the ruling PLD party, and society. "Senator Williams must come here to show his face, to respond to the accusations against him, he cannot adopt that irresponsible attitude of absenting himself. We with the party caucus were waiting for him Tuesday last week to listen to him and to question him, before the Ethics Commission was empowered, but he didn’t come to the PLD caucus meeting and neither to the Senate session."
The Ethics Commission met yesterday to evaluate Williams’ statements in a interview with Alicia Ortega, in which he admitted having "investigated" several journalists to determine the sources of reports he’s being probed for an alleged Medicaid fraud in the United States.
Guerrero said although Williams publicly admitted hiring private detectives to investigate the journalists Margarita Cordero, Maria Isabel Soldevila, Norma Sheppard, Mayra La Paz and Adalberto Domínguez, they must first listen to the San Pedro (east) senator’s explanations.
From: United States
Texasshoe this would set a good example for starters of cleaning up in the government and cutting away at the fat. Lets hope the other senators decide on this fate. A simple apology or even being just fined or fired is not enough. This man robbed the people and should be forced to pay for his crimes.
I hope the US government puts him in jail for 30 years and takes everything he owns in the US for his punishment.
Seriously just look at this guy. He looks like a lying scumbag.
Written by: juanb, 7 Apr 2009 9:29 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Just another arrogant, incompetent elected official. This one got caught.
Written by: xwill7, 7 Apr 2009 9:47 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
They should fire him and move on... How much Dominican peso has to be wasted in order to investigate. The senate has other items to take care of...
Written by: Username, 7 Apr 2009 10:33 AM
From: Dominican Republic
This guy and this whole case is amazing.
From DR1:
"...As for his absence from the DR to work in his dental clinic in the US, Williams said that he visits San Pedro de Macoris every week. He is quoted in Listin Diario as saying that he spends four days a week in the US and three days per week living at the Metro Country Club in Juan Dolio, a golf and residential development about 20 minutes from San Pedro."
What a life. I bet he's flying 1st class of course. And the rest of the clowns in the Senate, same as him. If they were serious how hard would it be to cut his salary off? One phone call and done.
Written by: xwill7, 7 Apr 2009 10:40 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Texashoe,
They should stop wasting money on this guy and use the money to help the people. Or even better, to stop crime
From: United States
He is not the only one.
Written by: xwill7, 7 Apr 2009 12:11 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
He must have many high ranking friends
From: United States, Brooklyn
Doesn't he just looks dirty
Written by: belly51, 7 Apr 2009 1:54 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Francisco y Houston,TX
Bring him to San Francisco de macoris we know how to do it here. They go to jail or get found dead in the woods.
From: United States
Its time for our country to start making examples of people like this. If not we look like fools letting people do this to our people and once caught no punishment to prevent others from doing the same. Shame on our legal system and government.
Written by: DomVilla, 7 Apr 2009 2:43 PM
From: United States, Maryland
Anibal Paez the man use to dress Balaguer took senate as a place to be protected when he was caught at Miami with a private Jet full of Cocaine, I remember he was a US Citizen and he returned the citizenship after the scandal.
From: United States
They are all crooks. They have no right accusing him.
Shameless fools.
Written by: Juango, 7 Apr 2009 3:18 PM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
Appears to be SOP for legislators, much like here in the USA. Same old crap. Why has it taken his fellow Senators, this long to bring this to the forefront. He apparently has never attended his duties as a Senator. They are all incompetent ! They are just piling on now that it has become a public issue. His fellow senate members would have never called him on the carpet, if it were not a public issue. This guy is worthless, can't see how he make it as a dentist. The NY Dominicans crowd should boycott him/his office, and force him to go back home to face his citizens, that he has screwed for so long.
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Well he looks Haitian,
the more Haitian looking the the more corrupt they are.
Written by: xwill7, 7 Apr 2009 4:29 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Darth_Vader un mask yourself!
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
The truth will set us free.
Je,je,je, Jacirez (alias dominicanation, alias hatian 1801) has joint the dark forces (The Haitian Fucu) and has become Darth_Vader.
Written by: xwill7, 7 Apr 2009 5:35 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Popon,
Not cool...
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Darth_Vader alias Jacirez, alias Dominicantion, "I assume you make that generalization based on your personal and intimate knowledge of over 9,035,536 people..."
And the poorest because….??? Corruption.
I'm not even going to answer that. I'm not going to answer the obvious.
The point is, this official, like what another poster said, must return his salary he earned to the Dominican people. The government has to start sending all these crooks to exile, not to Euro or North America, but to Haiti so they are face with reality.
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Jacirez, alias Darth_Vader alias dominicanation,
a man of your intellect should not post in sites you consider is full of peasants.
As always you are the master fatuous master jerk.
Fatuous: a person who does not know he doesn't know and think he knows.
Dominican Republic will never unite with the other side. Comprende tutun makun?
From: United States
pompomlabruta,this man looks Haitian, Oh yes he looks Haitian
Ulisses Heureaux,Gregorio Luperon,RafaelTrullijo they kind of look Haitian also ,don't they ?????
From: United States
according to a study by the cuny dominican studies institute,about 90% of the contempory dominican population has african ancestry.however, most dominican do not self-identify as black(included pompomlabruta)
From: United States, Brooklyn
Hey FOOL
Does "William" sound like a Dominican name???
From: Dominican Republic
The racial distribution in DR is 16 % white, 11 % black and 73 % mulato! What counts is that they behave like Dominicans! Race, skin color, nose shape or hair texture does not matter. What matter is to put DR ahead of race, skin color, hair texture, human rights, socialism, capitalism, and religion!
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
So CeraJota alias Jacirez, Dominicanation, alias Haitian 1801 stop posting.
From: United States
It is a good day in the neighbourhood !
From: United States
He does look Hatian. Why don't we take all his money, property, and his passport and deport him back to Haiti? This looks like a proper punishment.
Written by: Juango, 8 Apr 2009 10:44 AM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
Thank you DT for the deletions. It was getting far too ponderous, much like the Sen. Williams story. This turkey is living proof that it takes very little culture, morals and integrity to be a POLITICO. I place equal blame on his fellow Senators for allowing this cluster f**k. God help us all. We here, are not too far behind the DR with our own government in the USA (B. Frank, H. Reid, Pelosi). What a joke. We the voters deserve what we asked for in a democratic society, be it the DR or the USA.
From: United States
This is the icing on the cake by God what the hek???!??! this guy is to represent a community and he spends half his time in another country and also working making money, but at same time cashing a check that is paid to him from the hard word of honest dominican come on give me a break wake the hek up people until when are we going to allow anyone to step over our Patria BY god doesn't anyone remember their history class what our country was founded on the basis of Duarte rebelion to gain our independence, when did we stop been proud ?!??!??!?!? what happen to Dios Patria Libertad, we have nothing left who are we what are we just idiots that let anyone run our lives country down to the ground??!?!??! jesus for the love of god wake dominicans wake up.................
Written by: THINK, 8 Apr 2009 3:05 PM
From: United States, SDQ -- Mia --NY
Guys, If you ever live in the Dom. long enough, you will know:
1. Political issuse
2. The laws in there not applied to those who are high positions or rich
3. I have no idea that the PLD nominate this guy as Senator in SPDM., do PLD do background investigation to screen who is better candidate?
4. If this guy involved in the medicaid fraud in the U.S., it will not surprise me, because he thinks he is above the law.....he thinks that the US will treat him as he is as a Senator in the D.R.., what a shame....... DR has Senator like him who is playing around the law, ignoring the law, ....
Please, the Ethic comission of Senate in DR., I believe only talk, talk and fooling around people again..... show people the actions that you are taking........
Written by: Juango, 8 Apr 2009 3:35 PM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
El Pais de Las Maravillas.....It is a wonderful place, where the laws are only for the many poor and uneducated people. Those rich and/or well connected need not worry, there are different set of Laws for you. Williams is either rich or well connected or he has some dirt on someone very high up...hummmmm I wonder what this payaso has that I don't, maybe it is his good looks....
From: United States
the most disturbing issue here is that this guy operates in a political ecosystem wherein he would even think of doing this. can you imagine Chuck Schumer living in London , running a habadashery, and flying to Albany once per week to attend to matters in the Senate? what should worry Dominicans is that there exists a system in which he believes, and rightfully so, that it is no big deal. this is beyond scandalous, and Leonel should have expunged him by executive decree. then again, there is very little attention paid to appearances of impropriety, and he will continue to do this until something is done by others. he apparently is not sufficiently principled and decent enough to resign.
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
Never expect a criminal to admit guilt!!!!!!!!!! If he doe's you're lucky and it cost's less to prosecute the scum.
GET THE FREAKIN PROOF by doing a professional criminal investigation without screwing it up.
Don't wait for him to admit anything. Get to work on it NOW!!
I said do it NOW! Jeezz
From: United States
VeronicaRD, he went to medical school and he is a dentist practicing in the US.
He is too smart to be Haitian
He can not be a Haitian.Haitians are dumb.
He must be a dark Dominican.
What do you think ?
Oh no Veronica ! I am not playing with your intelligence.
You are too smart to let me call you a naive a backward person !
From: United States, Angola prison Louisiana
all this racist bantering has nothing to do with the fact that without a Free Press this pond scum would have got away with it Next time dont be so quick to allow others to railroad you into censorship for the good of the group That is pure rubbish
Written by: tejano, 9 Apr 2009 5:11 PM
From: United States
Drastic measures HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....The Dominicans take drastic measures HAHAHAHAHAHA. This has been known for months and it wasn't until someone else highlighted it that the senate felt they had to do something. What a bunch of bufoons!! What will the drastic measures be?? a vice minister position!! There is not one Dominican willing to make the sacrifice, blow the whistle on corruption. If one exists they might as well start at the top with the President who promotes, condones and participates in it.
Written by: THINK, 9 Apr 2009 7:27 PM
From: United States, SDQ -- Mia --NY
There are so many BS saying in Dom. politics., let the guy William in Jail., end of story.
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I hope the US government puts him in jail for 30 years and takes everything he owns in the US for his punishment.
Seriously just look at this guy. He looks like a lying scumbag.
From DR1:
"...As for his absence from the DR to work in his dental clinic in the US, Williams said that he visits San Pedro de Macoris every week. He is quoted in Listin Diario as saying that he spends four days a week in the US and three days per week living at the Metro Country Club in Juan Dolio, a golf and residential development about 20 minutes from San Pedro."
What a life. I bet he's flying 1st class of course. And the rest of the clowns in the Senate, same as him. If they were serious how hard would it be to cut his salary off? One phone call and done.
They should stop wasting money on this guy and use the money to help the people. Or even better, to stop crime
Doesn't he just looks dirty
They are all crooks. They have no right accusing him.
Shameless fools.
the more Haitian looking the the more corrupt they are.
Je,je,je, Jacirez (alias dominicanation, alias hatian 1801) has joint the dark forces (The Haitian Fucu) and has become Darth_Vader.
Not cool...
And the poorest because….??? Corruption.
I'm not even going to answer that. I'm not going to answer the obvious.
The point is, this official, like what another poster said, must return his salary he earned to the Dominican people. The government has to start sending all these crooks to exile, not to Euro or North America, but to Haiti so they are face with reality.
a man of your intellect should not post in sites you consider is full of peasants.
As always you are the master fatuous master jerk.
Fatuous: a person who does not know he doesn't know and think he knows.
Dominican Republic will never unite with the other side. Comprende tutun makun?
Ulisses Heureaux,Gregorio Luperon,RafaelTrullijo they kind of look Haitian also ,don't they ?????
Hey FOOL
Does "William" sound like a Dominican name???
1. Political issuse
2. The laws in there not applied to those who are high positions or rich
3. I have no idea that the PLD nominate this guy as Senator in SPDM., do PLD do background investigation to screen who is better candidate?
4. If this guy involved in the medicaid fraud in the U.S., it will not surprise me, because he thinks he is above the law.....he thinks that the US will treat him as he is as a Senator in the D.R.., what a shame....... DR has Senator like him who is playing around the law, ignoring the law, ....
Please, the Ethic comission of Senate in DR., I believe only talk, talk and fooling around people again..... show people the actions that you are taking........
GET THE FREAKIN PROOF by doing a professional criminal investigation without screwing it up.
Don't wait for him to admit anything. Get to work on it NOW!!
I said do it NOW! Jeezz
He is too smart to be Haitian
He can not be a Haitian.Haitians are dumb.
He must be a dark Dominican.
What do you think ?
Oh no Veronica ! I am not playing with your intelligence.
You are too smart to let me call you a naive a backward person !