{"id":4574,"date":"2009-05-15T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/know-the-right-people-get-investment-contract\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T17:04:00","slug":"know-the-right-people-get-investment-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/know-the-right-people-get-investment-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Know &#8216;the right people,&#8217; get investment contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The New York Times continues its stellar, contextual reporting on the investment scandal spreading in that state and <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> today with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/15\/business\/15leuschen.html\" target=\"_blank\">an in-depth look<\/a> at a go-between who helped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlyle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Carlyle Group<\/a> get big contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The article is relevant in <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> because of this recount of David M. Leuschen\u2019s involvement in the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placetype st=\"on\">Land<\/st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st=\"on\">Enchantment<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201c\u2018We may be slow, we may be old, we may be plodders,\u2019 Mr. Leuschen told <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> officials when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sic.state.nm.us\/PDF%20files\/PEIAC_12-14-05_Minutes_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">making a pitch (on behalf of Carlyle) for their business<\/a> in 2005, \u2018but we think we know the right people, and this is very much a relationship business.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He walked away with a $40 million investment from the New Mexico State Investment Council on that day, according to the minutes of the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Times article comes on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/us-attorney-subpoenas-investment.html\">Thursday\u2019s news<\/a> that Carlyle has agreed to pay $20 million and reform the way it does business to avoid prosecution in the New York investment scandal that has spread to a number of other states, the most prominent being New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe think we know the right people?\u201d And that helped Carlyle win a lucrative investment deal in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Interesting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times continues its stellar, contextual reporting on the investment scandal spreading in that state and New Mexico today with an in-depth look at a go-between who helped The Carlyle Group get big contracts. The article is relevant in New Mexico because of this recount of David M. Leuschen\u2019s involvement in the Land [&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-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574","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=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}