{"id":2164,"date":"2007-08-28T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/former-state-insurance-official-pleads-not-guilty\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T21:54:00","slug":"former-state-insurance-official-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/former-state-insurance-official-pleads-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Former state insurance official pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A former state deputy insurance superintendent indicted last week on charges of extortion, mail and wire fraud and corrupt solicitation pleaded not guilty on Monday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/589746nm08-28-07.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> is reporting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Joe Ruiz is accused of offering to reduce administrative fines for insurance companies if they donated to specific charities, including one that sold children\u2019s books Ruiz authored. He\u2019s also accused of pressuring one company to settle a claim for a state senator who isn\u2019t identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ruiz, who is facing 31 felony counts, was released on his own recognizance, the Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Five companies paid a combined $102,000 in donations and weren\u2019t fined, the Journal reported, while five others refused and had to pay reduced fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former state deputy insurance superintendent indicted last week on charges of extortion, mail and wire fraud and corrupt solicitation pleaded not guilty on Monday, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting. Joe Ruiz is accused of offering to reduce administrative fines for insurance companies if they donated to specific charities, including one that sold children\u2019s books [&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-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","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=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}