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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

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In re: PROMESA 

Title III

THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND 

MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO,

as representative of No. 17 BK 3283-LTS 

THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, et al., (Jointly Administered)

Debtors.1

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ORDER

This matter is before the Court on the Renewed Motion of Creditors’ Committee Seeking 

Entry of Order, Under Bankruptcy Rule 2004, Authorizing Discovery Program with Respect to 

Certain Causes of Puerto Rico Financial Crisis Beginning on August 15, 2018 (Dkt. No. 3066) (the 

“Renewed Motion”). The Court held a continued hearing on the Renewed Motion on July 25,

2018. In accordance with the rulings made in open court, the Court hereby orders as follows:

1. The Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico (“GDB”) shall continue its privilege 

review of the GDB board minutes, as represented in open court, and shall produce 

 1 The Debtors in these Title III Cases, along with each Debtor’s respective Title III case number and the 

last four (4) digits of each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, as applicable, are the (i) 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 3283-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 

3481); (ii) Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (“COFINA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 3284-LTS) 

(Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 8474); (iii) Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority 

(“HTA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 3567-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3808); (iv) Employees 

Retirement System of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (“ERS”) (Bankruptcy Case 

No. 17 BK 3566-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 9686); and (v) Puerto Rico Electric Power 

Authority (“PREPA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 4780-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3747) 

(Title III case numbers are listed as Bankruptcy Case numbers due to software limitations).

 

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unprivileged documents to both the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (“UCC”) 

and the Official Committee of Retired Employees of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 

(“Retiree Committee”) (collectively with the UCC, the “Committees”) as soon as 

possible. Any documents, or portions thereof, withheld on the basis of privilege shall be 

listed on GDB’s privilege log.

2. The Committees’ additional requests for director and officer liability documents and 

documents from investigations by regulatory agencies are denied without prejudice to 

the Committees’ renewing their requests after receipt of the Independent Investigator’s 

report.

3. The Renewed Motion remains open such that requests may be made pursuant to it after 

the publication of the Independent Investigator’s report.

SO ORDERED.

/ s / Judith Gail Dein 

Judith Gail Dein

United States Magistrate Judge 

DATED: June 25, 2018

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