New Mexico's secretary of state faces 65th charge: identity theft

[TonyTheBean]

[url]http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na--ff-new-mexico-secretary-20151004-story.html[/url]

[quote]Secretary of State Dianna K. Duran already faces allegations of financial crimes, stemming from a separate August indictment.

Late Friday, the New Mexico attorney general's office alleged in a criminal complaint that Duran also falsified campaign finance reports by forging the name of a
former state Senate colleague and claiming him as her campaign treasurer.

Duran faces 64 charges related to fraud, embezzlement and money laundering. The attorney general's office alleged that she frequented casinos across the state, withdrawing
$430,000 between 2013 and 2014 from her personal accounts while also depositing campaign funds into her personal accounts.

The law permits prosecutors to request an enhanced sentence for any convictions of public corruption and to fine an individual in an amount equal to his or her pay and fringe
benefits from the time of the earliest crime. In Duran's case, that would amount to close to $500,000.[/quote]

i'm proud to be a new mexican

[27X]

Nothing new in the land of enchantment.

And she won't pay a dime back either.