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Whistle-Blower Letter Never Got to Madrid
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 03, 2006 03:37pm |
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| Category | Advertisement |
| News Date | Thursday, August 3, 2006 09:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Madrid was asked to investigate, and she did nothing," says the new Wilson ad, which began airing this week. "A whistle-blower wrote Madrid a letter with details on the scheme. Still, Madrid did nothing."
During Vigil's first trial, former State Board of Finance director Jan Goodwin— now head of the state Taxation and Revenue Department— testified she had become concerned about Nelson's work for the Treasurer's Office.
She prepared a letter in January 2002 asking Madrid's office to investigate apparent violations of state investment policy. Goodwin said during the trial, she believed the letter, which was prepared for the signature of then-Taxation and Revenue Secretary Harold Field, was sent to Madrid's office.
But the letter used during Vigil's trial was not stamped as being received by Madrid's office, Goodwin testified in April. The Attorney General's Office said it never got such a letter.
The just-produced, May 18 letter from Department of Finance Administration Secretary Katherine Miller— whose agency oversees the board of finance— backs Madrid's position.
"Our office conducted an extensive search and found no documentation in our current files or archives of such a letter being signed and sent by then-Secretary Field," the letter from Miller says. |
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