{"id":4350,"date":"2009-03-15T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/defendants-seek-dismissal-of-foy-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T03:00:00","slug":"defendants-seek-dismissal-of-foy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/defendants-seek-dismissal-of-foy-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Defendants seek dismissal of Foy lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sb164KadRNI\/AAAAAAAALIA\/apNs2sXMyrQ\/s1600-h\/Foy,+Frank.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sb164KadRNI\/AAAAAAAALIA\/apNs2sXMyrQ\/s200\/Foy,+Frank.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313538240653640914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You may have read an article last week about three defendants in a lawsuit alleging pay to play in the Richardson administration filing motions to have the lawsuit dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Lawsuit-dismissal-sought-in-apf-14619929.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press article<\/a> details the motions from former Richardson Chief of Staff Dave Contarino, State Investment Officer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sic.state.nm.us\/about_SIO.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Bland<\/a> and Educational Retirement Board Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/meyners.com\/services\/bio?bio=47&amp;resume=yes\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Malott<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/guvs-administration-faces-new-pay-to.html\">Frank Foy\u2019s lawsuit<\/a>, filed on behalf of the state, alleges that Contarino ordered Bland and Malott to make investments with Vanderbilt Financial and affiliated companies in exchange for a little more than $15,000 in contributions to Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The state lost $90 million in the investment deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The three men have already denied the allegations. In his court filing, Contarino says Foy\u2019s allegations aren\u2019t supported by the facts. Bland\u2019s motion to dismiss states that the lawsuit is \u201cpart of a McCarthy-style political witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haussamen.com\/ContarinoResponse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read Contarino\u2019s motion to dismiss, <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.com\/BlandResponse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read Bland\u2019s, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haussamen.com\/MalottResponse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read Malott\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read an article last week about three defendants in a lawsuit alleging pay to play in the Richardson administration filing motions to have the lawsuit dismissed. The Associated Press article details the motions from former Richardson Chief of Staff Dave Contarino, State Investment Officer Gary Bland and Educational Retirement Board Chairman Bruce [&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-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","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=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}