They presented the release date of the ex-mayor of Gatano

Former Caetano Mayor Felix “El Cano” Delgado Mondalvo’s release date from prison has been pushed forward. On January 28, 2025, This is according to his file with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

With the reduction, due to bonuses that inmates earn under the federal system for good behavior and other standards, Delgado Mondalvo, 42, will serve only nine months in prison instead of the prison sentence he was sentenced to by Federal District Court Chief Judge Raul Arias Marxuach.

Despite this release date, the former mayor has already been on the island since late September to serve out his sentence in a halfway house. This allows you to go outside during the day to work and perform other duties. He must go back to sleep at night.

Before entering the halfway house, Delgado Mondalvo was at the Federal Correctional Institution in Bennettsville, South Carolina.

It was only in mid-April that the former mayor of Caetano began serving a one-year prison sentence. He was sentenced to three years of supervised release and a $20,000 fine. The sentence was delivered on March 13, 2024.

Delgado Mondalvo was the inventor of a scheme of illegal activities in several municipalities involving many businessmen such as Oscar Santamaría, Mario Villegas, Raymond Rodríguez and José Bou. In essence, they were dedicated to bribing mayors to get contracts for their companies.

With the bribes he received, Delgado Mondalvo and his accomplice Roxana Siffre afforded themselves a life of luxury. In public, they appeared in designer clothes, shoes and handbags.

The former mayor reached a plea agreement with the U.S. government on November 30, 2021, on one count of conspiracy under the federally-sponsored bribery and kickback scheme.

“Defendant conspired and agreed to obtain goods of value from Person A, attempted to obtain influence and remuneration in exchange for awarding contracts to Person A in connection with a business, transaction or transaction of $5,000 or more,” the plea agreement states.

Oscar Santamaria, who pleaded guilty to bribery, is the person in question. He is serving two-and-a-half years in prison.

As part of a plea deal, Delgado Mondalvo was instrumental in several investigations that led to the conviction of several politicians. Guaynabo former mayors in the list of cases, Angel Pérez Otero; Trujillo Alto, Jose Luis Cruz Cruz; From Guayama, Eduardo Cintron Suarez; From Humacao, Reinaldo Vargas and Aguas Buenas, Luis Arroyo Chiqués and Javier García Pérez, as well as former representative María Milagros “Tata” Charbonier Laureano.

The only public testimony about the illegal scheme was given by the former mayor at the trial against Guanabo’s former mayor.

In his statement, Delgado admitted that he was kept by Santamaria for about a year to devote himself to the political campaign for the 2016 elections, and that one of his favors to the businessman was the hiring of Perez Otero’s wife, Lisa Fernandez, as a lawyer. For the municipality even when I don’t need her services.

He opined that the bribes he received from Santamaria were $2,000 per week.

As part of his sentence, Delgado had to return the expensive watches he had received from Mondalvo Villegas. These are a Rolex Datejust, model #126300, serial number 5N8209Z4; A Rolex Datejust, model #116234, serial number 5E1T3127; A Rolex Submariner, model #114060, serial number V89H9750; A Rolex “Pepsi”, Model #11719, Serial Number V0813336; and a Vacheron Constantin, model #4500S/1, serial number 1383714.