Chief Division Counsel Stephan Marshall (Deming) — Columbus is among the communities prompting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin an aggressive campaign targeting corruption in New Mexico's rural areas.
Chief Division Counsel Stephan Marshall told reporters Wednesday that the Albuquerque division of the FBI is launching a new initiative to tackle corruption in rural towns.
Marshall said the FBI won't accept the attitude that a certain level of corruption is acceptable.
And, he said, the FBI hopes residents will come forward to report wrongdoing.
In recent years, New Mexico has had two high-profile, rural, municipal corruption cases: Columbus, where a dozen people, including the town's former police chief, mayor and a trustee, pleaded guilty in a gun smuggling case, and Sunland Park, with an alleged extortion election plot involving the secret recording of a mayoral candidate getting a lap dance.
Chief Division Counsel Stephan Marshall told reporters Wednesday that the Albuquerque division of the FBI is launching a new initiative to tackle corruption in rural towns.
Marshall said the FBI won't accept the attitude that a certain level of corruption is acceptable.
And, he said, the FBI hopes residents will come forward to report wrongdoing.
In recent years, New Mexico has had two high-profile, rural, municipal corruption cases: Columbus, where a dozen people, including the town's former police chief, mayor and a trustee, pleaded guilty in a gun smuggling case, and Sunland Park, with an alleged extortion election plot involving the secret recording of a mayoral candidate getting a lap dance.
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