Attorney General Investigating Ray Begaye For False Vouchers
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The Farmington Daily Times reports that the office of Attorney General Gary King is investigating State Representative Ray Begaye for possible violation of the state’s criminal statute prohibiting false statements to obtain payments from the state treasury. The investigation of 
Democrat Begaye of Shiprock comes on the heels of a report by investigative reporter Gadi Schwartz of KOB-TV revealing that Begaye submitted false invoices for mileage and per diem for attending an out of state conference. The conference had been sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislators. That organization covered all of Begaye’s expenses, including paying for a rental car he used to drive to the meeting. Begaye then sought mileage reimbursement, falsely claiming he had used his owned vehicle to drive to Arizona.
New Mexico Watchdog has learned that Begaye also attended conferences sponsored by the same organization in San Francisco, Sonoma and Palm Springs, California. He submitted mileage reimbursement requests to the state of New Mexico, claiming he had driven to those meetings from his Shiprock home. He may have been flown to those meetings at the expense of the sponsoring organization. Files on these trips have been removed by the Attorney General’s Office from the offices of the Legislative Council Services.
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Tags: false vouchers, KOB-TV, National Conference of State Legislators, New Mexico Attorney General, New Mexico Watchdog, Ray Begaye
1:24 am on September 21st, 2012
I’m coming to the conclusion that no government is the best government. Makes no difference which party. Isn’t bipartisan politics how we got where we are today? $16 trillion in debt; sure, let’s just stick to the plan. Changing the captain on the Titanic will have no effect. The iceberg has done its damage & this ship is going down.
9:33 am on September 21st, 2012
A Dem AG investigating a powerful Dem politician. I’m sure that Gary King will proceed with the same alacrity that he has shown with the Rebecca Vigil Giron case. To save time and money, AG King should just ask the U.S. Attorney to investigate.
9:06 am on September 24th, 2012
A crook, a liar, a cheat, no ethics, no morals……..but I’ll be he goes to church every week
12:07 pm on September 24th, 2012
This will be another case of hypocrisy for Gary King, who appears to break rules and laws fairly regularly with no consequences. He has admitted to forging the name of his former campaign treasurer on his FEC reports. http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2012/05/king-broke-campaign-reporting-law-fec-says/ He violates state procurement code http://newmexicoindependent.com/66928/ag-violated-state-procurement-code-auditors-find He violates the public records act http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2011/03/ag-violated-public-records-act-judge-says/ He blows the resources for Medicaid Fraud http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-6182-rate-of-return.html He tells some whoppers about his investigations http://newmexico.watchdog.org/11195/when-several-months-means-more-than-three-years/ He uses state resources to protect his bacon http://newmexicoindependent.com/24446/ags-office-wary-about-double-dipper-reform-is-itself-a-double-dipper
He gets millions in tax subsidies for his farm http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-5501-king-corn.html He totally screws up the law enforcement board http://newmexico.watchdog.org/10679/law-enforcement-board-bucks-gary-king/ He illegally accepts a $15k contribution http://newmexico.watchdog.org/9664/the-15000-question-for-gary-king/
He threatens reporters who ask nosy questions http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2011/11/king%E2%80%99s-red-herring-allegation-won%E2%80%99t-silence-me/ His conflicts of interest in cases is the stuff of legend, from Mary Herrera, Rebecca Vigil-Giron, to his cousins Jerry King and David King, and on and on even allowing his staff to have conflicts. http://newmexico.watchdog.org/1727/ag-senior-advisor-serves-ag-and-private-law-firm-without-chinese-wall-to-prevent-conflicts-of-interest/
And there was his “pay to Sue” scandal http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB124087457455161273-lMyQjAxMDI5NDIwNzgyNzc0Wj.html
But no one prosecutes him, thanks to the “blue wall” that exists between prosecutors. Or do they just know too much about each other?