New Mexico officials are demanding the sort of transparency that Barack Obama has promised Americans involving his controversial decision not to criminally charge his friend—Governor Bill Richardson—in a pay to play scheme that cost him a presidential cabinet post.
A major news agency reported this week that top-level Justice Department officials in Washington intervened in the notoriously crooked governor’s investigation, killing any possibility of an indictment. “…It was killed in Washington,” according to a Justice Department source who alluded to the political influence-peddling that took place behind the scenes.
In December a grand jury began investigating Richardson, Obama’s pick to be Commerce Secretary, for giving a shady company a lucrative state deal after it donated tens of thousands of dollars to his political action committee. The deal had corruption written all over it because the California-based financial firm was granted the coveted state contract even though it had a documented history of doing bad work, including pushing an Alabama county into potential municipal bankruptcy. Its work in New Mexico was equally disastrous and cheated taxpayers out of thousands. READ MORE...
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