Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) Representative Denis Márquez Lebrón and his colleague Adriana Gutiérrez Colón sent a letter to the chairman of the House Government Committee insisting that the panel summon attorney Juan González Galarza to testify. They also asked the committee to summon a second lawyer, Lionel Santa Crispín, as part of the investigation into Power Expectations and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (AEE).
The probe follows allegations of fraudulent conduct and irregularities in a process that ended with the cancellation of the contract. According to the article, Santa Crispín took an active part on behalf of the AEE, especially in the pre-negotiation meeting with representatives of Power Expectations. The legislators reaffirmed their earlier request that González Galarza be called to a public hearing.
They argued that the absence of a waiver of a communication that might be legally protected is no justification, in fact or in law, to prevent the committee from summoning him in the legitimate exercise of its constitutional legislative power to investigate. They stated that González Galarza was summoned because he has personal knowledge of the matters under investigation, and that many of the questions to be asked are not related to communications that could be classified as privileged.
The article is tied to Josué Colón, whose attorney González Galarza is described as being.