Aug
09

Pain of Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis Is Weighing on the Little Guy, Too

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Eddie Toro Velez claims in a class-action lawsuit that he was sold risky bond investments.CreditDennis M. Rivera Pichardo for The New York Times

To Lev Steinberg, it seemed like a good place to park his nest egg.

Puerto Rico bonds offered high returns and tax-free income. And there was little chance, his broker assured him, that the government would default on its debt.

So Mr. Steinberg went all in, investing more than 85 percent of his retirement savings in funds with large concentrations of Puerto Rico bonds.

“They told me this was safe,” said Mr. Steinberg, a 64-year-old mathematics professor at the University of Puerto Rico, “that the legal protections to repay the bonds were strong.”

As it turns out, the bonds were far from safe…

Pain of Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis Is Weighing on the Little Guy, Too

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