Posted on 09/17/2020 12:00:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A newly-unsealed lawsuit is bringing up old allegations against former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and several other high-profile New Mexicans.
The lawsuit claims Attorney General Hector Balderas benefited from Richardson's 2008 pay-to-play scandal.
A lawsuit in 2008 alleged Richardson had been the mastermind of a complex operation that defrauded New Mexico's taxpayers.
It states, "Richardson obtained money for himself; money for his campaigns; money for his political organizations; lavish meals, entertainment, and travel; wine and liquor, sexual services and sexual favors."
Bill Richardson faces fresh calls for investigation into alleged pay-to-play schemes In 2009, the U.S. Attorney over New Mexico confirmed there was a federal investigation into the allegations, but neither Richardson nor anybody else was ever indicted.
With the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution set to expire in 2021, the plaintiffs are asking a state court to refer the case to appropriate district attorneys for prosecution, but with Attorney General Balderas and his office staying out of it.
The lawyers claim Richardson helped fund Balderas' political campaigns with money Richardson got from his pay-to-play schemes.
Balderas' office released the following statement:
The Attorney General has a long-standing, independent record of fighting corruption in his years of service, and these allegations are baseless and ridiculous.
Richardson did not respond to KOB 4's request for comment.
Democrats are scum dept.
Democrats are lower than scum.
He always came across as dirty - but he had the “D” by his name which gave him a pass with the corrupt FBI and corrupt press... He must have been outrageous in his theft... for the establishment to notice.
I met Bill Richardson at a private party years ago and he was actually quite charming and had the girth and dress of an old-time Tammany Hall politician. I’m not aware that any Democrat anymore has ‘charm’, just thuggish nastiness.
Richardson was one of Epstein’s buddies on Pedo Island!
Bill Richardson is one of many in the long lineage of corrupt NM governors.
If you are a Democrat office holder, you are corrupt.
It’s axiomatic.
Yep, it’s like saying water is wet.
Richardson pressured a wary Navajo nation to accept gambling on its rez. Reportedly, the payback to the NMex pol was astounding.
Richardson also ‘found a job at the UN for Monica’ after the Oval Office bj was exposed to the world.
Why bother nothing will happen to him ever until he ends up in hell with the rest of the democrats who are roaming freely on the earth.
elpadre wrote:
“Richardson was one of Epstein’s buddies on Pedo Island!”
Yes, and his parents lived in Mexico City are /were wealthy bankers and groomed him for politics from an early age sending him to the best American schools and raised him here. He’s an anchor baby for the rich and famous.
I always thought of him as Rich-arse-son. /spits
Good to see this coming out, can’t wait to see discovery.
Hang’em high in GTMO Commander!
SS1
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