{"id":40564,"date":"2012-06-02T11:33:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=40564"},"modified":"2012-06-02T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T17:33:19","slug":"assessors-association-with-state-senator-under-fbi-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/06\/assessors-association-with-state-senator-under-fbi-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessor\u2019s association with state senator under FBI scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is apparently asking questions \u201cabout Bernalillo County Assessor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernco.gov\/assessor-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Montoya<\/a> and her association with state Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/eichenbergfornewmexico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Eichenberg<\/a>, a consultant whose work includes helping people protest tax assessments set by Montoya\u2019s office,\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/06\/01\/news\/exworkers-feds-asking-about-assessors-office.html\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> is reporting.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMontoya herself said an FBI agent visited her office this week hoping to talk to her, but she was unavailable. The agent left his card, with a request for Montoya to call him after Tuesday\u2019s primary election, in which Montoya is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenlmontoya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a candidate<\/a> for the Public Regulation Commission.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Montoya was quoted by the Journal as saying there is \u201cnothing that could be investigated\u201d because she\u2019s done nothing wrong. Eichenberg was quoted as saying he doesn\u2019t get preferential treatment from Montoya\u2019s office and hadn\u2019t heard from the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Eichenberg is up for re-election this year but has no contested primary on Tuesday. Montoya is in a hotly contested three-way primary race for the District 1 PRC seat.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Journal article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/06\/01\/news\/exworkers-feds-asking-about-assessors-office.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is apparently asking questions \u201cabout Bernalillo County Assessor Karen Montoya and her association with state Sen. Tim Eichenberg, a consultant whose work includes helping people protest tax assessments set by Montoya\u2019s office,\u201d the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/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":[156,157,142,107],"class_list":["post-40564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-bernalillo-county","tag-crime","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564","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=40564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}