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Juan Luis Boscio Deprez was a Puerto Rican

Puerto Rican people

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politician

Politician

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and Mayor of Ponce

Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...

, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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from 1961 to 1964.

In the early 1980s, Juan Luis Boscio Monllor, son of Juan Luis Boscio Deprez, was president of the board of directors of the Ponce Municipal Development Authority (PMDA), during the tenure of mayor José G. Tormos Vega

José G. Tormos Vega

José Guillermo Tormos Vega, known as Joselín, was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1976 to 1984.-Political life:...

. He was indicted on October 31, 1985, by a federal grand jury for extortion

Extortion

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, together with Tormos Vega. He was tried on May 27, 1988.

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