Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Mayoral Race Down To Wire
... stand up to corruption and cites his time in the state Senate — when a coalition of Republican lawmakers and a few Democrats helped him unseat Manny Aragon as president pro tem. Critics at the time said Aragon had grown too powerful, and he later pleaded guilty to mail fraud and conspiracy ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Voters: City's Run Better Than State
... of State Rebecca Vigil Giron was indicted in a money-handling case recently. In recent years, two former state treasurers and former state Sen. Manny Aragon were convicted of corruption-related charges. Gov. Bill Richardson's administration was the subject of a yearlong, federal pay-to-play ...
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ABQJOURNAL OPINION/LETTERS: Talk of the Town
... Nancy Pelosi - San Francisco Town Hall - 1/17/2006 WILLIAM A CHAVEZ Albuquerque Here's Another Famous Name To Remove SINCE POOR Manny Aragon's name has been removed from buildings/organizations he supported because of his conviction, should not Senator (Pete) Domenici's ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: Digging Into Iglesias Firing
... and Wilson acknowledged making calls but said they never pressured Iglesias, who as a prosecutor was supposed to be insulated from politics. (Manny Aragon, a former New Mexico state Senate president pro tem, was later indicted and pleaded guilty in the courthouse corruption scandal and was sentenced ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/WASHINGTON: Rove Relayed N.M. Complaints
... scandal involving construction of the Metropolitan Courthouse in Albuquerque. All the defendants, including former State Senate President Pro Tem Manny Aragon, pleaded guilty. Domenici's attorney, Lee Blalack, told the Journal on Friday that the Rove interviews with The Washington Post and ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Neighbors Want Library Name Removed
... Want Library Name Removed By Andrea Schoellkopf Journal Staff Writer Neighbors of an Albuquerque elementary school want former state Sen. Manny Aragon's name removed from the library. "He is a convicted felon," said Isabel Cabrera, president of the Clayton Heights/Lomas del Cielo Neighborhood ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: The Final Chapter
... . Schiff's participation helped net $918,000 for the conspiracy, most of it paid to other players such as former state Senate President Pro Tem Manny Aragon and then-Metro Court administrator Toby Martinez. Conway ordered Schiff to pay individual restitution of $136,000 in addition to the $541 ...
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ABQJOURNAL OPINION/LETTERS: Talk of the Town
... is needed. Force and other forms of direct intervention haven't worked. DICK YECK Albuquerque Throw the Bums Out of the Roundhouse MANNY ARAGON chose the “prison track” as opposed to the “blue collar” career track or the “white collar” career track ...
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