When Congress set out to legislate a solution that would help address Puerto Rico’s debt crisis almost three years ago, one of its main bipartisan objectives was to avert catastrophe.
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Puerto Rico violated a law meant to safeguard the pensions of its public-sector workers who have been unable to invest the more than $300 million they contributed to a new retirement plan, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday against the U.S. commonwealth’s government and others by two labor unions, Reuters reported. The litigation, filed in U.S.
Puerto Rican legislators gave approval Thursday to a final agreement for restructuring bonds from the Sales Tax Financing Corp., known as COFINA, Pensions & Investments reported. The COFINA restructuring agreement was filed Oct. 19 in the court overseeing Puerto Rico's bankruptcy, under Title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act.
A U.S. judge yesterday approved Puerto Rico’s first consensual debt restructuring deal, helping wind down the Government Development Bank (GDB), the island’s former fiscal agent, Reuters reported. Government lawyers called the confirmation hearing a “historic moment” for the U.S. commonwealth’s financial recovery.