{"id":4831,"date":"2009-08-20T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/08\/vigil-giron-isnt-being-placed-on-administrative-leave\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:21:21","slug":"vigil-giron-isnt-being-placed-on-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/08\/vigil-giron-isnt-being-placed-on-administrative-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil-Giron isn&#8217;t being placed on administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4977\" title=\"Vigil-Giron, Rebecca\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Vigil-Giron-Rebecca.jpg\" alt=\"Vigil-Giron, Rebecca\" width=\"120\" height=\"162\" \/>Former Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Vigil-Giron\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Vigil-Giron<\/a> isn\u2019t currently being placed on administrative leave from her position with the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dws.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Workforce Solutions<\/a> despite the fact that she was indicted on 50 felony counts related to public corruption on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Deputy Secretary Ken Ortiz stated in a news release that while \u201cthe allegations contained in the indictments are serious, they concern actions that are unrelated to (Vigil-Giron\u2019s) work with the department.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil-Giron is a constituent liaison for the department\u2019s labor and industrial division.<span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She and others indicted &#8212; lobbyists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/Lobby\/940531.HTM\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Kupfer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/Lobby\/070154.HTM\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Kupfer<\/a> and contractor Armando Gutierrez &#8212; each face 50 counts including money laundering, fraud, soliciting or receiving kickbacks and tax evasion. They\u2019re accused of bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars between 2004 and 2006 by falsifying invoices to the secretary of state\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The release from Ortiz\u2019s office states that the department will have no further comment on Vigil-Giron\u2019s indictment \u201cuntil it has had an opportunity to review the matter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cUntil that time, Ms. Vigil-Giron is expected to continue to fulfill her work duties,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron isn\u2019t currently being placed on administrative leave from her position with the state Department of Workforce Solutions despite the fact that she was indicted on 50 felony counts related to public corruption on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-secretary-of-state-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","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=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}