Legal Opinion
United States v. Cornier-Ortiz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 17, 2004No. 03-1022PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This public corruption case from Puerto Rico resulted in the conviction, for misuse of federal housing monies from 1996 to 2001, of the sole defendant, Edwin Rafael Cornier-Ortiz. Cornier was the general manager, sequentially, of two private for-profit management corporations, CORA and ERCO. Cornier worked with others— including a HUD division director, a contract employee of the Puerto Rico Public Housing Authority, and their relatives — to divert United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) funds that were meant for the administration of low-income…
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