There’s been some pretty good media coverage in the last week of my company’s lawsuit against the New Mexico Finance Authority (NMFA), and I wanted to share it with you.
In case you missed the news, Haussamen Publications has filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to force the NMFA to release copies of subpoenas it has received in the federal probe of allegations of pay to play in the Richardson administration. Though the governor’s office has released a similar subpoena, the NMFA has refused.
Newspaper coverage of the lawsuit has come from The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell and an Associated Press article that ran in the Las Cruces Sun-News, Albuquerque Journal, on The New Mexican’s Web site and in other print and online publications.
There’s also been some radio coverage from KRWG-FM’s Evan Woodward in Las Cruces and KUNM-FM’s Julie LaJeunesse in Albuquerque.
The first response from NMFA that I’ve seen came in Woodward’s report:
“We are fully cooperating with the department of justice in their investigation,” the agency said in a statement released to KRWG. “NMFA is providing full disclosure and complying with the Department of Justice’s direction not to impede or compromise their investigation in any manner.”