I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Attorney General Gary King might ask for increased powers to prosecute financial fraud, spokesman Phil Sisneros told The Independent this week.
“Turns out the Martin Act is something we have been studying to see if there are applications for N.M.,”…
Saul Meyer admitted Tuesday to pushing certain deals to New Mexico’s two investment agencies as the state’s investment adviser because politically connected individuals here recommended them. He didn’t name names. But the guilty plea thrust another scandal onto the front burner in New Mexico, just after Gov. Bill Richardson and former staff members escaped criminal charges but not a cloud of suspicion.
Remember Steven Rattner? He’s the man who was heading President Barack Obama’s auto bailout program and who had been linked to a New York pension scandal that has spread to New Mexico and beyond.
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King has joined a national task force that is investigating the third-party marketer scandal that is spreading across the nation.
Attorneys general in more than 30 states have joined the task…
A California man who shared in $1.5 million in placement fees in New Mexico investment deals pleaded guilty Wednesday to securities fraud in an ever-expanding New York criminal probe, according to news reports.
The attorneys general of New York and New Mexico have been in touch about the possibility of expanding the investigation of a pension scandal in New York to include dealings in New Mexico.
