Williams admits he sent investigators

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.- Senator Alejandro Williams admitted that he contracted a private company to investigate the newspaper stories that said that he was the subject of an investigation for Medicare fraud.

The legislator made his announcement during an interview granted to journalist Alicia Ortega in one of his offices in the Bronx for the television program, El Informe, to be aired today.

"I have the same right to contract a company of investigators to find out where such a rumor came from, the investigators are simply doing their job," said the senator for the province of San Pedro de Macoris.

He said that he contracted the investigators at the suggestion of his lawyers with the idea of clearing up what he considered to be a defamation of his character. "The defamation should not remain unchallenged, whether newspaper reporters feel that they are being threatened or not, he who has done nothing has done nothing has nothing to worry about, now we have to wait for the final results of this investigation."

He said that the investigators that contacted journalists Maria Isabel Soldevila, Margarita Cordero and Norma Sheppard came from the United States. He pointed out that the person identified as one of his bodyguards and accompanied the investigators was Jesus Gonzalez, a cousin of his who served as a guide for the investigators.

Williams justified the contracting of the detectives, headed by Marcos Martinez, before what he considered to be his right to look into the alleged defamation to which he as been subjected. "When the final result of the investigation comes out, then we will have all the data, and see if they scared me or not."