Rebecca Vigil-Giron under Investigation by Attorney General’s Office

It came out in the Albuquerque Journal this morning that former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron who is now working for the Department of Workforce Solutions is under investigation by Gary King’s office for the accounting of $3 million of federal funding spent for a voter’s educations campaign from 2004 through 2006. Last year there was a federal audit released which questioned the methods used in reporting and recording $3 million of a 6.3 million allotment of federal funding. At the time of the release of the auditor’s report Rebecca Vigil-Giron was in a tight race with Martin Heinrich for the congressional district one democratic position on the ticket.

I interviewed Rebecca Vigil-Giron and she was happy to turnover a written copy of her response to the federal auditors. She felt at the time that there had been no clear directions for recording and reporting how the money was spent so she turned to a system used by the Attorney General’s Office thinking that the system would meet all of the federal requirements. At present due to the investigation Ms. Vigil-Giron is forbidden from responding to questions about the issues but since I received the response months ago and post it at the time I see no reason not to reference it in this blog.

So here is the interview with the official detailed response Rebecca Vigil-Giron made to the federal auditor before any investigation was initiated. http://mrycllns.blogspot.com/2008/06/interview-with-rebecca-vigil-giron.html