{"id":17392,"date":"2012-01-26T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17392"},"modified":"2012-01-26T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:46:11","slug":"attorney-generals-office-stalls-housing-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/attorney-generals-office-stalls-housing-corruption-case","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General&#8217;s Office Stalls Housing Corruption Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17395 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"corruption\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/corruption.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/corruption.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/corruption-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charges have yet to be brought against at least six people suspected of corruption as part of the now five-year-long housing investigation because the case has been tied up in the Attorney General&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Despite numerous inquiries into the matter, no answers have been forthcoming from the officials as to the status of the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source close to the matter, the AG&#8217;s office has had possession of the file for more than a year but prosecutors have yet to act on police recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Police inquiries began into the Ministry of Housing &#8211; which was then under PLP Minister of Housing Neville Wisdom &#8211; after The Tribune published allegations by contractors that some government employees were engaged in corrupt practices at the expense of poor home buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years later and still no charges have been brought against corrupt Housing Ministry employees &#8211; the case has been stalled in the Attorney General&#8217;s office with no good reasons why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,151,49,123],"class_list":["post-17392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-law","tag-lawyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}