A former state official who filed a lawsuit alleging “pay to play” in Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration is now seeking the names of donors to a charity established by the governor.
The new subpoena related to the lawsuit seeks to uncover who contributed to the Moving America Forward Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Richardson that began operating in 2003, attorney Victor Marshall said Thursday
In his lawsuit, which was not disclosed publicly until Jan. 14, Foy claims that the Educational Retirement Board and another agency lost a total of $90 million through worthless investments offered by Chicago-based Vanderbilt Capital Advisors and Vanderbilt Financial.
Several Vanderbilt executives in 2007 made $15,100 in contributions to Richardson’s failed presidential campaign, the lawsuit says. Read More
Here is a New Mexico Gov. and with ties like this right back to the pay to play city of Chicago! Wait a minute isn’t that where Obama and Blagojevich is from? Does all roads lead back to Chicago and Barack Obama?
So, Vanderbilt (a hedge fund, evidently) funded Richardson’s own private ACORN and received, in return, a huge pile of dough from the NM teachers’ retirement fund, managing to lose $90 million of it. Nice going! The upside, I suppose, is that teachers are punished.
Now this is a story to make you mad
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Money/Story/STIStory_333227.html
I only read this far before I got mad as hell…this country is beginning to look like its no longer free!
People you need to read the page Luke posted above, but first take a nerve pill to keep you calm!
I’m sure Barry “barely knows” Richardson!
Yes that what we been hearing of late “I didn’t know”. None of these crooks know anything. Thanks for stopping by ginnypub!