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A Corrales lawmaker has asked for an investigation into the attorney general’s handling of a now-settled case that alleged unfair trade practices by a massive solar company.
State Rep. Daymon Ely
State Rep. Daymon Ely, a Democrat, has asked the Office of the State Auditor to look into why Attorney General Hector Balderas agreed to seal all documents in a case against Vivint Solar Inc., and why the AG didn’t pursue any specific restitution for thousands of consumers in a settlement it reached with Vivint last fall.
Ely says Balderas agreed to a protective order requested by Vivint that apparently bars public access to more than 1 million documents in the case. The order, approved in August 2020 by 2nd Judicial District Court Judge Clay Campbell, obstructs the ability of consumers to gather critical evidence when pursuing individual complaints against Vivint, and it may violate the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act, according to El
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Four years after the city of Albuquerque paid a scammer hundreds of thousands of dollars in a vendor fraud scheme, it nearly fell prey to a similar ploy due in part to city employees “neglect and complacency,” according to a new investigation.
In fact, a swindler was set to get $1.9 million from the city until a bank flagged the transaction, according to a recently released investigation by the city s Office of Inspector General.
“It was determined that staffs (sic) neglect of duties, complacency and the deliberate deletion of records all played a part in the fraudster nearly succeeding in its attempt to defraud the City,” the OIG report says. “Two of the three staff involved in processing the paperwork relating to this transfer demonstrated a dereliction of their duties.”
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