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Ex-employees seek CYFD contract investigation


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The state Attorney General’s Office, the state auditor and the New Mexico State Ethics Commission are being asked to investigate allegations that two top officials at the state Children, Youth and Families Department improperly steered a multimillion dollar information systems contract to a California firm without going to competitive bid.
In a complaint filed last week, two former CYFD employees contend an investigation is needed into whether state and federal laws were broken in the agency’s hiring of Binti Inc., which is headquartered in Oakland, California.
The 11-page complaint was signed by Cliff Gilmore, who served as CYFD’s public information officer, and his wife, Debra Gilmore, who had headed CYFD’s Office of Children’s Rights. Both were fired May 6 after less than a year on the job. They previously filed a whistleblower lawsuit in state District Court in Santa Fe alleging they were terminated for raising questi ....

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