Investigators asking about bond advisers' donations to Richardson's PACs

[wyldwolf]

Bloomberg.com reports that "a federal grand jury is investigating how a company that advised Jefferson County, Alabama, on bond deals that threaten to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, did similar work in New Mexico after making contributions to Governor Bill Richardson's political action committees."

A spokesman for the company, CDR Financial Products, tells Bloomberg that nothing wrong was done, and a spokesman for Richardson (now President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Commerce secretary) says New Mexico state agencies will cooperate fully in the investigation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aL0GGUluJeT8&refer=worldwide&loc=interstitialskip

[Billy Shears]

1. you just can't stand that 'Judas' got a position right alongside your gal, eh?

bet he does a better job, too.

[mtnsnake]

2. What makes you say something like that?

Explain, please.

[Billy Shears]

8. the OP is obviously a hit on Richardson for his 'betrayal'

some folks can't ever see past his endorsement of Obama in the Primaries.
thus, he is on their permanent shitlist and is cut down at every chance.

I, for one, think he is a great guy who is actually qualified to be in Obama's cabinet. He would have been a great SOS, but we're lucky to have him at any position.

[wyldwolf]

11. uh huh... (snicker). better duck! Here come the black helicoptors!

[wyldwolf]

3. I was a Richardson supporter in the primaries. Nyah Nyah!!! Your reply? FAIL

[Billy Shears]

9. until he 'betrayed' someone you loved more

then he was out with the next load of garbage, wasn't he?

[wyldwolf]

10. again, FAIL! Unless... nah... you don't have a link.. so you're pulling your posts from your ass.

[karynnj]

12. uhmmm If he loved HRC more, wouldn't she have been the first choice?

Only time and more details will show whether this is a big deal or not. I hope that there is nothing there or that it becomes public long before the nomination is processed in the Senate - and he steps down.

[mtnsnake]

13. Amazing how much you know about longtine DU'ers, considering you've only been here less than 2 wks

lol

[Billy Shears]

14. what are you, the DU Private Dick?!?

don't investigate me, Brer mtnsnake, p-p-p-please!

[mtnsnake]

15. lol

[riqster]

4. I hate Richardson's guts, but this is after-the-fact bulllshit

...and is only being brought up so as to do unto the Obama administration what was done unto the Clinton administration.

[wyldwolf]

5. why do you despise Richardson so?

[riqster]

7. He disenfranchised thousands of voters in 2004

His apologists claim that 'it wouldn't have made any difference' in the outcome, but to me that is beside the point. The point is the right of each voter to cast their vote and have it counted, and Richardson denied those voters that right.

[ProSense]

6. This is the key portion

“The Governor’s Office is aware of questions surrounding some financial transactions at the New Mexico Finance Authority,” said Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for Richardson. “We expect any state agency that is approached with federal officials” to cooperate, he said, declining to comment further. Calls to Richardson were directed to Gallegos.

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“That was one of many things we discussed,” he said, declining to comment on the specific scope of the investigation. He said no one at the governor’s office discussed retaining CDR with him when the decision was made.

One of the people called to testify before the Albuquerque grand jury said federal investigators asked if Richardson’s office directed the state agency to select CDR. Investigators also asked about how responses to a request for investment advisory services were scored.

Another person familiar with the probe said the thrust of the investigation is whether people in Richardson’s office influenced the selection of CDR. The person said the U.S. Attorney identified subjects of the investigation, not targets, which means prosecutors have yet to gather substantial evidence linking anyone to a crime.