{"id":88742,"date":"2015-10-02T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T21:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=88742"},"modified":"2015-10-04T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T03:01:40","slug":"duran-faces-new-felony-charge-of-identity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/10\/duran-faces-new-felony-charge-of-identity-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran faces new felony charge of identity theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article has been updated.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Attorney General’s Office filed a\u00a0new\u00a0felony charge<\/a> against Secretary of State Dianna Duran on Friday, accusing her of identity theft for listing a former state senator as her campaign treasurer without his knowledge.<\/p>\n

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Dianna Duran<\/p><\/div>\n

The new\u00a0charge\u00a0comes after\u00a0The Santa Fe New Mexican\u2019s Milan Simonich wrote on Monday<\/a>\u00a0about Duran listing a Don Kidd as her campaign treasurer in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she listed me, she did it on her own,\u201d Simonich quoted Kidd as saying. \u201cI didn\u2019t sign any checks or pay any bills for her, and that\u2019s what a campaign treasurer does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidd said the same thing to investigators.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Kidd explained that the information on the campaign reports was untrue; he was not the campaign treasurer,” states\u00a0the new criminal complaint<\/a> filed Friday. “He advised that he contributed to the campaign, but that was his only involvement.”<\/p>\n

Duran listed Kidd as her treasurer on 10 reports<\/a> filed between 2010 and 2013, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

The attorney general charged Duran in August<\/a> with fraud, embezzlement and money laundering in a 64-count criminal complaint alleging she\u00a0abused the state’s campaign finance system for personal gain. Among the allegations\u00a0is that\u00a0Duran\u00a0deposited a $600 check into her personal account that her campaign issued to Sean Davis of Tularosa for \u201cequipment & work on campaign,\u201d the attorney general claims.<\/p>\n

Duran allegedly forged Davis\u2019 signature. Investigators say Davis didn\u2019t work for Duran, endorse the check, or receive the money.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s important to know\u00a0who, if anyone, was watching Duran\u2019s campaign finances as treasurer.<\/p>\n

The new criminal complaint states that investigators have compared Duran’s 2010 campaign bank account with her finance reports<\/a> and found more than 100 bank transactions totaling more than $10,000 that don’t show up on Duran’s finance reports.<\/p>\n

In a separate document<\/a> filed in court Friday, the Attorney General’s Office stated that the\u00a0unreported bank spending included\u00a0“transactions at casinos, restaurants, gas stations and jewelry stores and cash withdrawals at ATM machines.”<\/p>\n

That document, which details some of the evidence the AG’s Office plans to introduce against Duran, also states the following:<\/p>\n