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Monday 13th November, 2006 Posted: 19:07 CIT (00:07 +1 GMT) > Comment on this story
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Dozens of executives and companies have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico stemming from a probe related to the U.S. territory’s governor.
Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila has said that U.S. authorities are investigating contributions to his campaign for resident commissioner – Puerto Rico’s nonvoting representative in Congress – in the 2000 election, but that he is not a target of the probe.
The grand jury in San Juan has requested records relating to Acevedo from 30 Philadelphia–area firms owned by seven executives, including developer Kenneth N. Goldenberg, the Parkway Corp., and Hill International of Marlton, N.J., The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Sunday. All have been campaign donors to Mayor John Street and other area politicians.
Robert M. Feldman, a longtime associate of U.S. Sen.–elect Bob Casey Jr., and 10 of his companies also are among those named in the subpoenas. Henry E. Hockeimer Jr., an attorney representing Feldman, said his client’s companies did no work in Puerto Rico.
Howard Trachtman, spokesman for Parkway Corp., said the company responded to the subpoena but called the probe "a fishing expedition." He said the company told investigators that the firm and its president, Joseph S. Zuritsky, had no contact with Acevedo.
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