Williams rejects call for the Ethics Commission
SANTO DOMINGO.- Senator Alejandro Williams rejected the summons from the Ethics Commission for a meeting next week to be questioned regarding the accusation of intimidating several journalists, alleging that he had received a fax from one of his dental clinics in the United States.
The president of the commission, Wilton Guerrero, said that the senator from San Pedro de Macoris denied receiving the invitation and he advised him to leave it at his senate office, even though it is closed all the time and there is no one there.
Guerrero called this attitude "absurd and appropriate of a nutcase", after pointing out that Williams has lost his humility and his post as a senator has gone to his head.
The PLD representative of San Pedro de Macoris in the Senate was summoned to appear on Tuesday 14 April at 10 o'clock in the morning, and journalists Margarita Cordero, Maria Isabel Soldevila and Norma Sheppard were cited for Wednesday the 15th at 10:00 a.m., so that they could explain to the Ethics Commission the intimidations of which they were victims.
Guerrero said that the commission would issue its report whether or not Williams is present or not and receives the communication, and it will be the full Senate that will determine what actions to take.
The legislator from the province of Peravia reiterated that the conduct of Williams is inacceptable and that his duty is to appear at the hearing with the Ethics Commission next Tuesday, in order to have his version of the things that he is accused of, in spite of the fact that in an interview with journalist Alicia Ortega, he admitted that the contracted "investigators" to question the women reporters as to the source of the story that reported that he was being investigating by Medicaid in the United States.
The president of the commission, Wilton Guerrero, said that the senator from San Pedro de Macoris denied receiving the invitation and he advised him to leave it at his senate office, even though it is closed all the time and there is no one there.
Guerrero called this attitude "absurd and appropriate of a nutcase", after pointing out that Williams has lost his humility and his post as a senator has gone to his head.
The PLD representative of San Pedro de Macoris in the Senate was summoned to appear on Tuesday 14 April at 10 o'clock in the morning, and journalists Margarita Cordero, Maria Isabel Soldevila and Norma Sheppard were cited for Wednesday the 15th at 10:00 a.m., so that they could explain to the Ethics Commission the intimidations of which they were victims.
Guerrero said that the commission would issue its report whether or not Williams is present or not and receives the communication, and it will be the full Senate that will determine what actions to take.
The legislator from the province of Peravia reiterated that the conduct of Williams is inacceptable and that his duty is to appear at the hearing with the Ethics Commission next Tuesday, in order to have his version of the things that he is accused of, in spite of the fact that in an interview with journalist Alicia Ortega, he admitted that the contracted "investigators" to question the women reporters as to the source of the story that reported that he was being investigating by Medicaid in the United States.
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