Fernando Tons gives up advising Senator Javier Aponte Dalmau after controversy over his hiring

Popular Senator Javier Aponte Dalmau has confirmed this morning that the ex-representative and ex-convict Fernando Tons will not work in his office as legislative adviser, after yesterday having announced his hiring at the rate of $ 6,000 a month.

Tons was convicted of corruption in 1995 by a phantom employee scheme.

Aponte Dalmau initially indicated that Tons would work as an employee of his office, but today clarified that the intention was for him to be a contractor.

“He told me that under these circumstances he is not willing to go and create a problem for me or the president or the Senate. I was excited to return to the Legislature to advise me on the process. parliamentary, but not so “, Said Aponte Dalmau a The New Day.

The popular senator indicated that yesterday he spoke with the president of the Senate, José Luis Dalmau, about the role of Tons in his office. Aponte Dalmau has indicated that the senatorial president described the reaction to Tons’ return as “unfair”.

“It’s not that he endorsed it … this person was rehabilitated and did work in the community. Senator José Vargas Vidot himself acknowledges this,” said Aponte Dalmau when cataloging the reaction of the citizens around the community. Tones figure as “diverse.”

“There are people who know him and know what he can continue to bring and the experience he has and there are people who understand that this was … in my opinion this was unfair,” he said.

Aponte Dalmau noted that the planned hiring of Tons was consulted with the text of the Anti-Corruption Code.