New Mexico: Former Senator Sentenced

[L. Coyote]

Source: NY Times

A former leader of the New Mexico Senate was sentenced to five and one-half years in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the state of $4 million in a courthouse construction project. The ex-official, Manny Aragon, Democrat of Albuquerque, had served 29 years in the Senate. He and seven others were accused of conspiring to use inflated and false invoices to skim public money meant for construction of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse in Albuquerque. All have pleaded guilty. Mr. Aragon, accused of pocketing $650,000 in the scheme, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy and mail fraud. Aside from the prison sentence, he was fined $750,000 and ordered to pay at least $649,000 in restitution.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/us/18brfs-FORMERSENATO_BRF.html?ref=us

[Warpy]

1. Good

He was by all accounts a bully almost on the order of Delay.

I hate corrupt Democrats. They make us all look bad.

[nightrain]

2. Sad, and good.

I don't like to see Dems doing unethical things, but we need to root it out no matter which party/affiliation/etc.