{"id":59850,"date":"2015-06-16T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=59850"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T16:21:25","slug":"all-facing-charges-are-now-former-not-current-county-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/06\/all-facing-charges-are-now-former-not-current-county-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"All facing charges are now former, not current, county employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_59329\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ClerksOffice-336x234.jpg\" alt=\"The Do\u00f1a Ana County Clerk's Office, shown last week.\" width=\"336\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ClerksOffice-336x234.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ClerksOffice-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ClerksOffice-771x536.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ClerksOffice-1170x813.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ClerksOffice.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Do\u00f1a Ana County Clerk&#8217;s Office, shown last week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some\u00a0NMPolitics.net readers have expressed frustration that Do\u00f1a Ana County placed on paid leave, rather than firing, four employees of the clerk&#8217;s office\u00a0after they were arrested and charged in an alleged binational scam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/06\/concern-about-clerks-office-arrests-but-not-a-loss-of-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now the county is confirming that the four\u00a0are no longer employees.<\/p>\n<p>From county spokesman Jess Williams, as quoted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_28318434\/dona-ana-county-it-director-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Williams said Monday the four personnel &#8220;are not on paid administrative leave, and they are no longer employed by the county.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams didn&#8217;t specify whether the departures were firings or resignations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maria Ceniceros, who was a document technician in the office, is facing charges for allegedly coordinating a binational scam to cash fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks.\u00a0Ceniceros allegedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_28245538\/court-records-employee-stole-data-from-voter-rolls?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">stole personal information<\/a>\u00a0from the county\u2019s voter database including Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The other three \u2014 Reena Rodriguez, Nadia Martinez and Emilia S. Gomez \u2014\u00a0are facing charges of conspiracy to commit forgery and violation of notary requirements. They allegedly notarized fraudulent signatures to allow the cashing of checks, though County Clerk Lynn Ellins says he doesn&#8217;t believe the notaries\u00a0were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/06\/notaries-werent-knowingly-part-of-a-conspiracy-ellins-believes\/\" target=\"_blank\">knowingly part of a conspiracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some NMPolitics.net readers had expressed frustration that Do\u00f1a Ana County initially placed on paid leave, rather than firing, four employees of the clerk&#8217;s office after they were arrested and charged in an alleged binational scam earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142,115],"class_list":["post-59850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crime","tag-dona-ana-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59850","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=59850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}