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USVI in corruption crisis- Acting AG Claude Walker
VI CONSORTIUM
St Croix, USVI — The arrests of four men — Paul Sabers and Ed McKenzie, two businessmen, former Chief Enforcement Office for the Tax Assessor, Calford O. “Cappy” Charleswell, and Sylvester Warner of the Waste Management Authority — that the Department of Justice accused of creating a fraudulent scheme to obtain prized property through a government-sanctioned auction, was only the beginning of a crackdown that Acting Attorney General Claude Walker has called a “corruption crisis” in the USVI.
Four arrested in USVI for fraudulent property gov't auction scheme
VI CONSORTIUM
CHRISTIANSTED, St Croix, USVI — Attorney General Claude Walker, flanked by Inspector General Steven van Beverhoudt and Deputy Attorney General Renee Gumbs Carty, announced the arrest of four St Thomas men he said created a scheme to fraudulently obtain property through government auctions dating back to 2012-2013.