Biography
José Rivera Sotomayor was the Nationalist Party treasurer when he was arrested in the 1942 selective-service crackdown.
The Nationalist Party treasurer was arrested in the 1942 selective-service repression and held in Tallahassee prison. In the testimony cited by Dávila Marichal he recalled FBI agents offering release and university education in exchange for abandoning his political convictions. No exact term or gate dates are established. Source: José Manuel Dávila Marichal, Organizando la revolución: El Ejército Libertador del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico y la insurrección nacionalista de 1950 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid doctoral thesis, 2020), physical/printed page 227; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.