{"id":4314,"date":"2009-03-05T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/letters-seek-leniency-for-aragon\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:27:00","slug":"letters-seek-leniency-for-aragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/letters-seek-leniency-for-aragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters seek leniency for Aragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SbBECv2cE-I\/AAAAAAAALB4\/VcgGCMBErCo\/s1600-h\/Aragon,+Manny.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 162px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SbBECv2cE-I\/AAAAAAAALB4\/VcgGCMBErCo\/s200\/Aragon,+Manny.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309818774665040866\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you haven\u2019t checked out the letter former Senate President <a href=\"http:\/\/kob.com\/article\/stories\/s619263.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Aragon<\/a> has written to a federal judge seeking leniency in the imposing of fines and restitution for his role in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse scandal, you should.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span>Also interesting are the letters a number of high-profile New Mexicans &#8212; including Senate President Pro-Tem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SJENT\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Jennings<\/a> and Archbishop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdiocesesantafe.org\/ABSheehan\/ABSheehan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael J. Sheehan<\/a> &#8212; wrote in support of Aragon\u2019s plea for leniency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can check out the letters by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/abqnews\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=11159:aragon-apologizes-in-corruption-case&amp;catid=1:latest&amp;Itemid=39\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the Albuquerque Journal\u2019s article on the letters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/051020480399newsstate03-05-09.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Aragon <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/aragon-pleads-guilty-in-metro-court.html\">pleaded guilty in October<\/a> to three felony counts of conspiracy and mail fraud. He was accused of pocketing more than $600,000 in the scheme in which prosecutors say he and several others stole $4.2 million in taxpayer money by inflating and falsifying invoices during construction of the courthouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t checked out the letter former Senate President Manny Aragon has written to a federal judge seeking leniency in the imposing of fines and restitution for his role in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse scandal, you should. Also interesting are the letters a number of high-profile New Mexicans &#8212; including Senate President Pro-Tem [&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-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","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=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}