{"id":34020,"date":"2011-11-29T06:14:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=34020"},"modified":"2011-11-29T06:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:14:29","slug":"do-e-mails-reveal-how-block-obtained-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/11\/do-e-mails-reveal-how-block-obtained-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Do e-mails reveal how Block obtained drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31005\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31005\" title=\"Block, Jerome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Block-Jerome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Block-Jerome.jpg 270w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Block-Jerome-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How did former Public Regulation Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/block-resigns-admits-felonies-but-could-avoid-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jerome Block Jr.<\/a> feed his prescription drug addiction? E-mails may shed light on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>KOB-TV in Albuquerque <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/article\/stories\/s2390373.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">has the scoop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBlock said he was not the only cause of problems at the PRC and there is a lot more going on, \u2018in some high places that people would be surprised at.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral emails seem to substantiate that claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one, Block asked a former PRC employee to lend him \u2018raffle tickets.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I need a huge favor man,\u2019 Block writes. \u2018Can you lend me a few of those raffle tickets until the morning when my paycheck comes in.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlock ended the email with a promise to pay promptly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I get a paycheck tomorrow. I guarantee I will give it to you first thing in the a.m. I\u2019m not feeling good at all.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a late summer e-mail, Block asked another PRC employee if they have any tickets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do you have any tickets at all? Even Box seats?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Block wouldn\u2019t directly answer when KOB asked if \u201ctickets\u201d was code for drugs, but did say the TV station \u201ccould very well be right when you say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can read between the lines,\u201d Block told KOB.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he could not have attended as many events as mentioned in the e-mails obtained by KOB.<\/p>\n<p>The PRC\u2019s chief of staff, Johnny Montoya, was quoted by KOB as saying he wasn\u2019t familiar with any code word used by staff and said he doesn\u2019t \u201cthink there\u2019s anything to this.\u201d He called it \u201can attempt to continue to pile on to Commissioner Block.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did former Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. feed his prescription drug addiction? E-mails may shed light on the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142,217,107],"class_list":["post-34020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crime","tag-prc","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020","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=34020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}