Governor says lawmaker must go if charged in kickback probe
By MORGAN LEE and CEDAR ATTANASIOJuly 29, 2021 GMT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) A leading New Mexico legislator should be prepared to resign if she is indicted in an investigation into possible racketeering, money laundering, kickbacks and violations of a law governing the conduct of state lawmakers, said New Mexico’s Democratic governor.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was “horrified” by details of the investigation into Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton’s connections to a company that had contracts with the school district where the Albuquerque-based Democrat works, she said Thursday.
The governor has not yet read through a search warrant affidavit outlining allegations, but “if there’s an indictment, she should immediately resign and her colleagues should call for that very same thing,” Lujan Grisham told a news conference at her offices in the state Capitol building.
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