Peter Schechter is the author of Point of Entry and political and international communications consultant. Founder of one of Washington’s leading strategic communications consulting firms, he spent twenty years advising presidents, writing advertisements for political parties, ghostwriting columns for CEOs, and advising international organizations on their way out of crises. He also owns a winery, raises goats, and is a partner in several successful restaurants. Schechter has lived in Europe and Latin America and is fluent in six languages. He lives in Washington, DC That’s what the HarperCollins publisher’s file says about him.
On October 8, 2020, Emilio Lozoya Austin told the Attorney General’s Office, which heads Alejandro Gertz Manero, that the payments made to the electoral consultants mentioned in his complaint were made through deposits to a company, to make investments in mining and the invoices that were paid to the electoral consultants did not mention activities related to the campaign. Rather, they were billers that referred to mining projects. “This being the case, I received invoices from some electoral consultants, but in the cases in which services to the campaign were mentioned, they were asked for adjustments in such a way that there was no relationship with services provided in the campaign. This was done with the purpose of hiding, before the electoral authorities, the illicit financing sanctioned by law.”
lozoya austin It says that to corroborate this information, the documentation and invoices of these processes could be required from the service providers, in such a way that they can be contrasted with the documentation and invoices that appear in the investigation folder. “The list of companies to which services such as those indicated were requested and to which the transfers were made was already provided in my complaint.”
On the other hand, says the former director of Petróleos Mexicanos, he was aware of other similar commitments that had to be covered with various amounts and companies whose denomination and amounts he does not know. “Regarding what has been stated so far, I want to specify that there are elements that prove my statement, such as the invoices related to deposits and payments to electoral consultants, which were supposedly for mining work.”
He says that although the aforementioned deliverables were delivered directly to the campaign manager, he is aware that they were basically electoral polls and communication strategy designs to hit and discredit opposition candidates.
“Respect to Peter SchechterI remember that he was a personal electoral adviser to Luis Videgaraywith whom he met at least monthly in Mexico City,” says Lozoya. “I can also report that Peter Schechter He was at the PRI headquarters on the day of the presidential election in 2012 and actively participated in the writing of the message of the then winning candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto. I know that because I was at the PRI headquarters that same day.”
Lozoya leaves another message to the FGR:
“Once the new government came into office, Luis Videgaray he asked me again to hire Schechter to carry out a personal assessment on his possibilities to be the next candidate for the Presidency of the Republic by the PRI for the 2018 presidential election, since this was his main and permanent motivation. My answer was that it was not possible to hire him since the activities of Schechter They weren’t compatible.”
But in the end, let the air Lozoyais aware that he did hire him during the six-year term of EPN.
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