If you haven’t checked out the letter former Senate President Manny Aragon has written to a federal judge seeking leniency in the imposing of fines and restitution for his role in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse scandal, you should.
Also interesting are the letters a number of high-profile New Mexicans — including Senate President Pro-Tem Tim Jennings and Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan — wrote in support of Aragon’s plea for leniency.
You can check out the letters by clicking here, and the Albuquerque Journal’s article on the letters here.
Aragon pleaded guilty in October to three felony counts of conspiracy and mail fraud. He was accused of pocketing more than $600,000 in the scheme in which prosecutors say he and several others stole $4.2 million in taxpayer money by inflating and falsifying invoices during construction of the courthouse.