{"id":1541,"date":"2007-04-04T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/aragon-others-will-be-arraigned-on-monday\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T21:39:00","slug":"aragon-others-will-be-arraigned-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/aragon-others-will-be-arraigned-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Aragon, others will be arraigned on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhQbW3bEseI\/AAAAAAAAB5Y\/QY4u0dIIPKY\/s1600-h\/Aragon,+Manny.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhQbW3bEseI\/AAAAAAAAB5Y\/QY4u0dIIPKY\/s200\/Aragon,+Manny.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049691161837744610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Former Senate President Pro Tem Manny Aragon and three others will be arraigned Monday on charges that they stole $4.2 million from taxpayers, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/apr\/04\/hearings-scheduled-aragon-3-others\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Tribune<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Aragon<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> hasn\u2019t yet spoken publicly about the indictment, so this will likely be his first public appearance since being charged last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The four were indicted in a massive public corruption scandal involving the construction of the $83-million Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse. They\u2019re facing felony charges of conspiracy, money laundering and mail fraud, and are accused of misusing the state\u2019s approval process of funds for the project to pocket money for themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Read the indictment by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/usao\/nm\/pr\/indictment_martinez_metro_ct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Charged along with <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Aragon<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> are former Metro Court Administrator Toby Martinez, his wife Sandra, and Raul Parra, a contractor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Three others have already pleaded guilty in the scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate President Pro Tem Manny Aragon and three others will be arraigned Monday on charges that they stole $4.2 million from taxpayers, according to the Albuquerque Tribune. Aragon hasn\u2019t yet spoken publicly about the indictment, so this will likely be his first public appearance since being charged last week. The four were indicted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}