Benny relatives deny Sadel NY consulate paid for his funeral in NY

NEW YORK Relatives of Dominican merengue Sadel Benny, who died in this city and his remains were exposed in chapel for two days in the Ortiz Funeral Home, located at 190 Broadway Street in Upper Manhattan, they denied that the Dominican Consulate New York has paid the cost of the funeral in the city.

Happy Rony niece Sadel and speaking on behalf of other family members, said that "it is not true what the consulate has been posting that paid the funeral; only helped us Culture Minister with $ 2.080 US dollars, and even paid the $ 220 you pay in tax consulate as to move a body to the Dominican Republic. "

Mrs. Merry added that "Culture also ordered to pay the funeral in the Dominican, 70,000 Dominican pesos, and everything was approved," but Jiminián Ana Rosa, who lived with Sadel for recent years, the United States called from that institution and expressed "that is no longer needed such assistance, which could cancel, and indeed it was so, and did as" revenge "because we decided to bury our family in RD and she refused because she wanted to be met at New Jersey," he said.

He said that both New York and the Dominican had to collection to honor the commitments of the wake. This reporter was reported in RD with the Assistant Minister of Culture, Aquiles Jimenez to check the call and suspension of other aid, and only managed to say "we had all to deliver, but called that because they no longer needed They had it all figured out, and we suspended. "

The niece of the glory of the national art, who lives in Miami, was interviewed via phone by this reporter in the presence and heard two prestantes public figures of the Dominican community in this Metropolis, David Williams, president of the Party "Revolutionary Social Democratic Party (PRSD ), and Hector Ramirez, former candidate for the State Assembly of New York, District 86 in the Bronx. Additionally we filed the recording.

A source of full credit said the consulate handed an envelope with $ 200 to Mrs. Jiminián, to help the funeral, and specified that gave different information regarding the alleged aid, specifying that on Saturday the 7th of this month, the government agency reported "The Consul Eduardo Selman said it is painful to have to face this fact of life, Sadel was of the finest examples of Dominican music. We have expressed our condolences to his widow and deliver a contribution. "

Then, the consulate reported on the 12th other information, road signing the reporter Miguel Cruz Tejada, saying, "The costs of funerals in both New York and the Dominican Republic, and burial, have been covered by the Dominican Consulate General based in this city, keeping it confirmed the Consul General Eduardo Selman this reporter, but did not specify the amount of the contribution. "