Major Martinez Donor Outed as Mystery Company to Win Multi-Million Dollar Tax Appeal; Threatens to Bankrupt NM Cities

From ProgressNow NM

A Florida revenue driven jail organization who gave a huge number of dollars to Governor Susana Martinez has been outed as the mystery organization whose sudden expense claim debilitates to bankrupt no less than one New Mexico city.

Toward the beginning of July, regions including Santa Rosa, Grants, Hobbs, Jemez Springs and Guadalupe County announced accepting huge expense bills from the state. The bill to Santa Rosa requested quick installment of more than $1.2 million - a large portion of the city's financial plan - however the Martinez organization declined to reveal the name of the partnership it had granted the assessment advance. The organization likewise declined to refer to the assessment code arrangement which had been bid.

The Guadalupe County Communicator now reports that of the enterprises that paid vast expense charges in the previous a half year, just the GEO Group, a Florida-based revenue driven jail organization, worked together in Santa Rosa.

Additionally, the revenue driven Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) works private penitentiaries in Grants and Hobbs and would have likewise profit by the organization's assessment choice.

ProgressNow NM has found that the GEO Group gave more than $41,000 to Martinez - $33,000 of it specifically to Martinez herself - and the Republican party since 2010. That is more than five times the sum given to Democrats.

Toward the beginning of July, Santa Rosa authorities appealed to the state Board of Finance, led by Martinez, to give an impermanent $1 million credit to enable the city to keep away from insolvency. In spite of the state detailing a $250 million excess, Martinez and the board denied the demand.

"This whole expense process was attempted between the senator's organization and a partnership which gave her enormous crusade gifts, and now nearby citizens are being considered responsible to take care of everything," says Pat Davis of ProgressNow New Mexico, a non-benefit government and corporate guard dog gathering. "This representative is releasing a whole town bankrupt to settle her organization's misstep, and the special case wins' identity some tremendous Florida partnership?"