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Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 09:31 Written by rslcpol Friday, 20 March 2009 09:22
From the AP:
Former New Mexico state Senate leader Manny Aragon broke down in tears today before being sentenced to five and a half years in prison for his role in a corruption case that stained his long career of public service.
Aragon also was fined $750,000 — the bulk of which he already has forfeited to the government — and he was ordered to pay at least $649,000 in restitution.
Aragon pleaded guilty last year to three federal felony counts of conspiracy and mail fraud in a scheme to defraud the state of nearly $4.4 million in the construction of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse in Albuquerque.
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