Hendrick Socorro Sanchez, better known as Cuba or Tito and coach of the Leon de Ponce baseball team, as well as his wife, Julia Pastrana Romero, have been indicted by federal authorities as the main defendants in an indictment filed for defrauding the federal government. Listed as such. Administration of Small Businesses (SBA) for thousands of dollars obtained through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and the Payroll Protection Program known as PPP.
But in addition to this coach, and among the 44 defendants are professional baseball players and future prospects of the sport.
This is the case for Jan Alexis Hernandez, a potential outfielder for the Carolina Giants who is currently playing in the Mexican Baseball League.
Similarly, their second baseman, Alexis Pantoja Díaz, another young baseball prospect currently playing in the minor leagues of the United States in Pennsylvania, was charged to this Giants team.
The feds also charged the pitcher for the Halcones de Gurabo in Double AA baseball, Christian Rivera Renovels, who also played with the Braves de Sidra.
Some of these players also charged fees of up to $20,000, of which they are believed to have given $5,000 to accountant Manfred Pentzke Lemus, who had already been charged with another indictment, and another $3,000 to coach Cuban. were given.
Last April, federal authorities charged six people, including the head of the network, Pentzke, a Nicaraguan-born accountant, his father, Dr. Carlos Manfredo Pentzke, and his mother, director of the Family Medicine Center in Morovis, for defrauding the federal government. Administrator, Ligia Maria Lemus de Pentzke.
The head of the federal attorney’s office in Puerto Rico, W. According to Stephen Muldrow, the island is one of the main jurisdictions in the United States with the highest number of fraud cases against the Coronavirus Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES. And stressed that more arrests are yet to be made.
For its part, the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation indicated in written statements that the players and coaches were immediately suspended after violating the rules.
