{"id":35526,"date":"2012-01-23T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T23:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=35526"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T23:55:41","slug":"correras-%e2%80%98run-the-governor%e2%80%99-adviser-claimed-about-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/01\/correras-%e2%80%98run-the-governor%e2%80%99-adviser-claimed-about-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"Correras \u2018run the governor,\u2019 adviser claimed about Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8531\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8531 \" title=\"Richardson3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson3-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Former Gov. Bill Richardson\" width=\"270\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson3.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTo think that Anthony (Correra) and Marc (Correra) don\u2019t have a stranglehold over this thing is crazy. Because the governor runs this sh*t and they run the governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what New Mexico\u2019s investment adviser, Saul Meyer, said to his company\u2019s partners in 2006 when talking about how things work in New Mexico. He was speaking about former Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Richardson\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The quote came from an audio recording of the 2006 Aldus Equity meeting. A transcript and the audio recording have been filed in court by Frank Foy as part of his lawsuit alleging pay to play during the Richardson years.<\/p>\n<p>Confused by all of this? The Albuquerque Journal ran an article on the Meyer recording this weekend that you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/01\/22\/news\/the-governor-runs-this-expletive-and-they-run-the-governor-151-fund-adviser-saul-meyer-as-quoted-in-transcript-from-richardsonera-investment-scandal.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and summed up the various investment-related lawsuits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/01\/22\/news\/investment-lawsuits-stack-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the transcript of the Aldus Equity meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/AldusMeetingTranscript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (It\u2019s Tab A, which starts on page 6), and listen to it (in five parts) <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Audio\/AldusMeeting1.wav\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Audio\/AldusMeeting2.wav\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Audio\/AldusMeeting3.wav\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Audio\/AldusMeeting4.wav\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Audio\/AldusMeeting5.wav\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The files were provided by Foy\u2019s attorney.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As for Meyer, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/nm%E2%80%99s-former-investment-adviser-pleads-guilty\/\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty in 2009<\/a> to felonies in New York related to an investment scandal there. In doing so, Meyer admitted to recommending \u201cinvestments that were pushed on him by politically-connected individuals in New Mexico\u201d while Aldus was the investment adviser to New Mexico\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sic.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">State Investment Council<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmerb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Retirement Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the Correras? From the Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnthony Correra was a close political and economic adviser to Gov. Bill Richardson and helped select Gary Bland as State Investment Officer. Marc Correra shared in more than $22 million in finder\u2019s fees paid by companies that received the state investments.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Richardson, of course, is apparently under investigation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/12\/grand-jury-investigating-richardson-meets-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\">at least two federal grand juries<\/a>. One is focused on the investment deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo think that Anthony (Correra) and Marc (Correra) don\u2019t have a stranglehold over this thing is crazy. Because the governor runs this sh*t and they run the governor.\u201d That\u2019s what New Mexico\u2019s investment adviser, Saul Meyer, said to his company\u2019s partners in 2006 when talking about how things work in New Mexico.<\/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":[112,142,123,107],"class_list":["post-35526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bill-richardson","tag-crime","tag-investment-scandal","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526","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=35526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}