{"id":2448,"date":"2007-10-30T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/state-senator-questioned-by-fbi-in-ongoing-probe\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:15:00","slug":"state-senator-questioned-by-fbi-in-ongoing-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/state-senator-questioned-by-fbi-in-ongoing-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"State senator questioned by FBI in ongoing probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A federal probe that has included the questioning of state Sen. Nancy Rodriguez<\/a>, D-Santa Fe, is the talk of politicos in Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. <\/p>\n

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At this point, Rodriguez is not accused of any wrongdoing, but she has been questioned by the FBI in connection with a probe related to the Pojoaque Pueblo\u2019s political dealings. Several members of the pueblo have been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury next week, the Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> and Albuquerque Journal<\/a> are reporting, and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office has demanded the pueblo\u2019s financial records related to political donations for the last 11 years.<\/p>\n

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Rodriguez told The New Mexican for an article published Friday that she hadn\u2019t been served a subpoena and didn\u2019t know what the FBI agents who recently visited her home wanted. She has apparently worked as a consultant for the pueblo since 1993, and is paid about $45,000 per year, she told the newspaper. She works on federal legislation and other issues.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not clear what or who the investigation is targeting. The Journal reported that investigators also want the pueblo\u2019s files on recipients of educational funds. The pueblo\u2019s governor has accused the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office of retaliation because he wrote an opinion piece published in April in The New Mexican denouncing former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias<\/a>, who was fired last year.<\/p>\n

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I guess we\u2019ll have to wait and see what happens on Tuesday. Since we\u2019re talking about a probe that might touch public officials who deal with the pueblo, it\u2019s worth nothing that the pueblo is located in the Senate district of Carlos Cisneros<\/a>, D-Santa Fe, and the House district of the speaker, Ben Lujan<\/a>, D-Namb\u00e9. I don\u2019t know if that means anything, but it\u2019s worth mentioning; however, this pueblo is well-connected, and its reach extends far beyond its own representatives in state government.<\/p>\n

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And, since Rodriguez works on federal issues for the pueblo, we don\u2019t even know whether the probe relates to the pueblo\u2019s dealings with state or federal officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A federal probe that has included the questioning of state Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe, is the talk of politicos in Santa Fe. At this point, Rodriguez is not accused of any wrongdoing, but she has been questioned by the FBI in connection with a probe related to the Pojoaque Pueblo\u2019s political dealings. Several members […]<\/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-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","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=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}