{"id":1574,"date":"2007-04-10T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/former-treasurer-begins-serving-prison-sentence\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:48:00","slug":"former-treasurer-begins-serving-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/former-treasurer-begins-serving-prison-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former treasurer begins serving prison sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhuyFFy3EEI\/AAAAAAAAB8o\/P8e-gOc_FiE\/s1600-h\/Vigil,+Robert.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhuyFFy3EEI\/AAAAAAAAB8o\/P8e-gOc_FiE\/s200\/Vigil,+Robert.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051827207550734402\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Former state Treasurer Robert Vigil reported to prison Monday to begin serving his term, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/553667nm04-10-07.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> is reporting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil began serving a 37-month sentence at a federal prison near <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Austin<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He was convicted of one felony count of attempted extortion using his elected office, but acquitted on 23 other counts, and is appealing his conviction to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The facility is a low-security prison that houses about 1,300 men in dormitories in two-man rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former state Treasurer Robert Vigil reported to prison Monday to begin serving his term, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting. Vigil began serving a 37-month sentence at a federal prison near Austin, Texas. He was convicted of one felony count of attempted extortion using his elected office, but acquitted on 23 other counts, and is appealing [&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-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","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=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}