Rivera Schatz questions the "lax and flexible criteria" used by some of the governor's cabinet nominees.

In his usual morning social media address, Puerto Rico Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz questioned whether the upper chamber should be flexible with some of Governor Jenniffer González Colón's cabinet nominees.

The executive director of the Office of Government Ethics, Luis Pérez Vargas, said Wednesday in public hearing that the appointment of Verónica Ferraiuoli as secretary of the State Department and her husband, Francisco Domenech, as secretary of the Government, does not constitute a conflict of interest under the current law. However, he acknowledged that it could be “an inappropriate working matter.” Pérez Vargas explained that Article 4.4(g)(9)…