Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : DEMOCRATIC NIGHTMARE - 2008 CANDIDATES -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (444)	3/27/2007 6:09:01 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 654

all I have to say is........Shillary.......how much more of a nightmare can you get?...a lying hack of a career politician who allowed her old man to diddle everything that came down the pike just so she could keep her political ambitions alive. She has been nothing and done nothing. Her high up friends in Dubai are keeping her in money, and so is BillyBubba's mainstay, Marc Rich. Many who cross them are dead....seems their friend don't last too long.

To: RMF who wrote (444)	3/30/2007 9:47:34 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 654

Richardson Saddened by N.M. Scandal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 30, 2007 Filed at 5:03 p.m. ET SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democratic presidential hopeful, said Friday he is troubled and saddened by the latest public corruption scandal to hit New Mexico. Named in a federal indictment Thursday was Manny Aragon, a former state senator who once was among New Mexico's most powerful politicians. Aragon and three others are accused of conspiring, laundering money and committing mail fraud in a scheme that authorities say cost state taxpayers $4.2 million. ''Regardless of the guilt or innocence, these indictments are very troubling,'' Richardson said Friday. ''I'm saddened too because Sen. Aragon has had a distinguished political career. My hope is that justice is swift and free of politics.'' The case involves an alleged scheme to defraud the state in the construction of a new county courthouse in downtown Albuquerque. Along with Aragon, former court administrator Toby Martinez, his wife Sandra Mata Martinez, and Raul Parra, a partner in Albuquerque engineering firm P2RS, were named in the indictment. Aragon served as the top Senate leader for 13 years. He resigned in mid-2004 to become president at New Mexico Highlands University, but he left two years later when the school bought out his contract. The indictments represent the second large federal corruption prosecution in two years. Former state treasurer Robert Vigil was arrested in 2005 and convicted last year of attempted extortion. His predecessor, Michael Montoya, pleaded guilty to extortion in a kickback scheme involving state investments.