Manny Aragon, three others indicted in kickback scheme (Prominent NM Democrat Politicos)

Albuquerque KOB-TV Channel 4 ^ | March 29, 2007 | Todd Dukart

[alloysteel]

New Mexico was named as a geographical balance for "New England".

[CedarDave]

Listen to the KRQE discussion in post #20. There may be more indictments coming for the Federal courthouse construction.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Reminds me of my State Senate where nearly 1/3rd of the rodent members of the past 2-3 years are either under indictment, currently on trial, or in prison. I'd think if you were a U.S. Attorney in NM, you'd literally be in hog heaven having to decide which corrupt rodent to go after, it's like a termite invasion. Iglesias is trying to cover his ass with regards to his incompetence.

[OCCASparky]

New Mexico is mostly Hispanic and has been forever....a heaven for Gringos with money and artists.

Oh, I don't know about that--I'm not Hispanic, I don't have money, and I'm not an artist, but having spent a great deal of my youth there (Farmington HS, anyone?) I still regard it as a little slice of heaven.

[greyfoxx39]

I just listened to the KRQE discussion...very interesting.

[greyfoxx39]

Farmington to New Hampshire? What a change.

[Santa Fe_Conservative]

Best news here in New Mexico I've heard all day! It's about time Manny Aragon got knocked off his high horse and come back to reality...same with Iglesias...

[wjcsux]

RAT corruption in our state!?! Who would have thought?

[CedarDave]

Worth repeating:

He [Iglesias] knew about this for months and months before the election. He was hired to clean up the corruption in NM politics and he failed to do it in anywhere near a timelt matter. He could have indicted these folks a year ago. He deserved what he got.

[greyfoxx39]

Best news here in New Mexico I've heard all day! It's about time Manny Aragon got knocked off his high horse and come back to reality...same with Iglesias...

Watch for Iglesias to jump onto all the cable channels and claim credit for the investigation! And the DBM will eat it up!

[colonialhk]

New Fed Prosecutor of Attorney?

Hmmm!

[AuH2ORepublican]

It was 42% Hispanic in the 2000 Census, although that will probably creep up a bit by 2010.

[NRA2BFree]

Oh brother! I can remember growing up as a kid with my dad and grandfather being involved in politics. The one thing they both agreed on was that politics in NM has been corrupt since the beginning of time. From the way it looks, it's going to be corrupt to the end of time too.

Aragon is not really a surprise, but Schults too? All the folks who bought cars from his dealership should go back and read the fine print on their contract. LOL

[greyfoxx39]

The Albuquerque Journal online has a link to several sites that include the indictments and press releases at:

Punch Here

[CedarDave]

Watch for Iglesias to jump onto all the cable channels and claim credit for the investigation! And the DBM will eat it up!

I'll bet you are right on the mark with that comment. He'll say something like that's what he was working on but it wasn't ready yet for taking to the grand jury. And to think there was talk that Iglesias was going to be a future Republican candidate. I bet he changes to a Democrat and goes to work on King Bill's campaign.

[greyfoxx39]

He doesn't need to change parties....the press will salivate to have a Republican with that high profile working for King Bill!

[pinz-n-needlez]

Another piece of the puzzle...

[petitfour]

It's a wonderful place, and the name fits it. We lived there two years and loved almost every minute of it. I just wish the place wasn't so corrupt. Then again, I can't think of an uncorrupt place . . .

[Clemenza]

New Mexico: New Jersey with dry weather and a crappy economy.

[CFC__VRWC]

I agree that Iglesias will be all over the DBM about this, but I think that instead of trying to take credit for it, he'll try to cut the legs out from under it by saying he knew it was solely a political prosecution, that he saw no evidence of any wrongdoing by these saintly democrat public servants, and that his refusal to play along and try to imprison innocent men was the reason he was fired.