Lawyers Make Claims and Counter Claims

Gary King

Capitol Report New Mexico - Taxpayers angry and alarmed at allegations of “pay to play” schemes at the State Investment Council (SIC) that cost the agency — which handles more than $15 billion in state assets — millions of dollars are anxious to find out what really happened. But on Thursday (June 2), the attorney and client who have spent three years pursuing roughly the same case called a news conference claiming the state’s attorney general, Gary King, should step aside from the case because they say he has a number of conflicts of interest. And they made similar charges against the SIC’s chief investment officer and the SIC board’s vice-chairman. King responded by saying he sees no reason why he should recuse himself and fired back at the attorney’s charge, saying lawyer Victor Marshall “doesn’t seem to have the best interest of the state at heart.” Read full story here: News New Mexico

Lawyers Make Claims and Counter Claims