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.
More attorney’s are blasting a letter issued by U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt’s after his year-long investigation of Governor Bill Richardson’s administration ended with no indictments.
In an article about Richardson’s political future now that the investigation is over, Politico quotes a “top Washington defense attorney” and a former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington State during the George H.W. Bush administration who say the letter written by Fouratt showed “extremely poor judgment.”
Investigators want to know if Richardson administration doled out investment consulting fees (“play”) in return for political contributions (“pay”). What New Mexico taxpayers need to know is, did insiders game the process to benefit themselves with the public’s money?
Whatever the consequences for Gov. Bill Richardson personally, his withdrawal from the commerce secretary post raises serious questions about how business is done in New Mexico. It’s not the first time that the shadow of corruption has hung over the state, but this story has the potential to be the most damaging because it could involve not just him, but people who worked for Richardson as well.
The company at the center of the investigation into allegations of pay-to-play that derailed Bill Richardson’s commerce secretary nomination, CDR Financial, was hired to save the state money, and it did save the state millions of dollars by restructuring escrow funds.
As our own Trip Jennings reported earlier this week, Gov. Bill Richardson left a press conference rather abruptly when reporters asked him off-topic questions about a federal investigation into a 2004 agreement between California based CDR Financial Products…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has convened a federal grand jury to investigate dealings between the state and a California company that was paid almost $1.5 million for work related to a contract it won around the same time it donated $100,000 to political action committees formed by Gov. Bill Richardson.
