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Hector Martinez Maldonado
WASHINGTON – Hector Martinez Maldonado, a former Puerto Rico Senator, and Juan Bravo Fernandez, the former president of the largest private security firm in Puerto Rico, were each sentenced on 1 March 2012 to 48 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a bribery scheme involving the passage of legislation beneficial to Bravo Fernandez’s business, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
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Juan Bravo Fernandez (centre)
The defendants were sentenced by Judge Francisco A. Besosa. Judge Besosa also ordered Bravo Fernandez to pay a $175,000 fine and Martinez Maldonado to pay a $17,500 fine.
They were convicted On March 7, 2011. Maldonado and another senator, Jorge de Castro Font accepted trip to Las Vegas to watch a boxing match in 2005 in return for help in passing two bills in the senate that would benefit Fernandez’s business interests.