- On October 6, 2007, the Center for Family Justice Board of Directors mailed a certified letter to Governor Bill Richardson, Attorney General Gary King, and Acting U.S. Attorney Larry Gomez with ample evidence of case fixing regarding the cases of Santa Fe attorney Sylvia LaMar. The results showed that Sylvia LaMar had Domestic Relations cases in three counties assigned to then-District Court Judge Petra Maes . Petra Maes is now a NM Supreme Court Justice. A second NM Supreme Court Justice, Patricio Serna, is also implicated. Two Santa Fe District Court Judges, Daniel Sanchez and Raymond Ortiz, are included. In fact, the letter states that all of Sylvia LaMar's Domestic Relations and Domestic Violence cases have been assigned to Judge Raymond Ortiz for most of the last two years. The cases used in the study were included to provide complete verification of the evidence. It has been nearly a month since the letter was mailed and certified return receipts have come back from the three offices, yet the Center for Family Justice has received no response or contact at all from the three officials. With such an appalling lack of response from government and law enforcement, no wonder the court system in New Mexico is completely out of control.
- On August
15, 2006, four members of the Center for Family Justice Board
of Directors met with NM Attorney General Gary King for about
45 minutes. The meeting was requested by the Center for Family
Justice. We commend Gary King for being the first person holding
office in the executive branch of NM government who has actually
met with CFJ and listened to its concerns on behalf of New Mexican
children and parents. More about CFJ President Leslie Cumiford's
impressions of the meeting and of Gary King is mentioned in this
month's message
from the president. A digital audio file of the meeting is
available here.
(A free
Sony plug-in is required to play this file)
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On Wednesday, August 8, 2007, the Center for Family Justice Board
of Directors faxed a jointly-signed letter
disclosing racketeering in the New Mexico Court System to
NM Governor Bill
Richardson, NM Attorney General Gary King, and Acting
U.S. Attorney for NM Larry Gomez. The letter stated that two
NM Supreme Court Justices were involved, provided detailed and
specific data, called for an immediate investigation, and requested
a response of the Governor within a week. None of the recipients
have provided a response to the letter as of this date. However,
the topic was discussed during a (previously-scheduled) meeting
with AG Gary King on August 15, 2006.
- Our attempts to meet with the NM Attorney General
Gary King initially fell on the same kind of deaf ears we experienced
during our eleven attempts to meet with former . However, this time the Center for Family
Justice did not take "no" for an answer and continued
to pursue a conversation with the AG. Hopefully we have a more
interested audience in Gary King than we had in Patricia Madrid,
affectionately dubbed by CFJ the "fairy godmother of corrupt
judges". We faxed the following letter
to Gary King on July 19, 2007 and within a short time received
an appointment with him for a thirty-minute meeting on August
15, 2007. in what we hope will
lead to a cleanup of judicial and cottage industry corruption
in New Mexico's family and children's courts!
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| This letter
was faxed to Governor
Bill Richardson, Attorney General Gary King, and U.S. Attorney
Larry Gomez, with signatories from the Center for Family Justice.
It is time for the Governor to get serious about the plight of the
families of New Mexico at the hands of a corrupt court system. If
you agree, contact the Governor's office ( write to: Office of the
Governor, 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Room 400, Santa Fe, NM 87501, or
call him at (505) 476-2200, or email him Governor
Bill Richardson) and let him know. A governor who takes care of
the people of his state deserves a shot at the U.S. presidency. A
governor who ignores them does not. |
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November 2, 2007
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