{"id":6276,"date":"2009-09-16T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2009-09-16T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:16:03","slug":"domenici-says-little-about-federal-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/domenici-says-little-about-federal-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici says little about federal investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6277\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 315px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6277\" title=\"Domenici2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Domenici2.jpg\" alt=\"Domenici, shown here earlier today at the Domenici Public Policy Conference at New Mexico State University. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"315\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Domenici2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Domenici2-336x276.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Domenici2-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domenici, shown here earlier today at the Domenici Public Policy Conference at New Mexico State University. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Domenici\">Pete Domenici<\/a>, R-N.M., had little to say when asked today about two high-profile federal investigations, one of them involving him.<\/p>\n<p>One is the ongoing investigation into whether any crimes were committed during the process that led to the 2006 firings of New Mexico\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Iglesias_%28attorney%29\">David Iglesias<\/a> and several other U.S. attorneys. The other is the probe into allegations of pay to play in the Richardson administration that recently ended with <a href=\"..\/2009\/08\/report-guv-others-won%e2%80%99t-be-charged-in-gripgate-probe\/\">no charges being filed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans have <a href=\"..\/2009\/08\/gop-raises-questions-about-end-of-probe\/\">questioned the reasons<\/a> for the current Justice Department\u2019s closing of the case against Richardson. In the other case, federal investigators have subpoenaed records from Domenici.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I wanted Domenici\u2019s thoughts on both probes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather just say I\u2019m not sufficiently informed,\u201d Domenici said. \u201cOne thing that bothers me is they take too long &#8212; these processes take too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People close to Richardson made similar complaints about the probe into the governor\u2019s administration, which lasted about a year.<\/p>\n<p>Domenici is one of the people at the center of the probe into the firings of the U.S. attorneys. Former U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heather_Wilson\">Heather Wilson<\/a>, R-N.M., and Domenici separately called Iglesias in October 2006 to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation involving a high-ranking Democrat. At the time, Wilson was in a tough re-election battle that she ended up winning by fewer than 1,000 votes out of about 211,000 cast.<\/p>\n<p>Iglesias alleges that Domenici and Wilson pressured him to speed indictments against former state Senate President Manny Aragon and others involved in the case in an attempt to sway voters, a charge both deny. Days after the election, Iglesias was fired.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a grand jury <a href=\"..\/2009\/02\/grand-jury-subpoenas-records-from-domenici\/\">subpoenaed records from Domenici<\/a> as part of its investigation, and some say charges against him are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., had little to say when asked today about two high-profile federal investigations, one of them involving him.<\/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":[136,131,116],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-pete-domenici","tag-u-s-attorney","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","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=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}