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September 24, 2014
Contact: Patrick Davis
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Investigation: Martinez appointee and fellow prosecutor tipped off Governor’s campaign manager to investigation into Republican voter registration fraud
Some emails deleted by DA preserved on other servers
A public records inquiry by ProgressNow New Mexico has prompted law enforcement officials to open an investigation into Governor Susana Martinez's campaign manager and her Doña Ana County District Attorney appointee, we learned today.
The Third Judicial District Attorney’s Office released a report yesterday concluding that emails by the previous administrations had been “intentionally erased.” Read more.

However, a public records project by ProgressNow New Mexico has located some (at least 286) of the deleted emails through IPRAs for email archives maintained by other agencies.
Among the emails captured by off-site servers are discussions between Orlando, the office’s top prosecutor, and the governor’s campaign manager, Jay McCleskey about an active voter fraud registration investigation naming Republican Party officials as official targets just weeks before the November 2010 elections. The emails show that Orlando sent McCleskey the entire confidential law enforcement file, including the names of targets, witness statements and copies of evidence, before investigators had begun to investigate the case.
View the emails and complaint posted online.
“These actions raise grave concerns that Ms. Orlando and Mr. McCleskey were coordinating to protect Republican friends and campaign colleagues from a criminal investigation in the office run by Susana Martinez and her deputy, Amy Orlando,” says Patrick Davis of ProgressNowNM.
Upon finding the emails in August, ProgressNowNM alerted the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office. The office recently confirmed to us that the matter has been assigned to an investigator.
“The allegations involve serious questions of public corruption and political shenanigans to protect criminal targets close to the prosecutor and district attorney responsible for investigating them,” says Davis. The communications and investigation occured while Martinez was still District Attorney.
“We hope that if the Attorney General’s office shares our concern they will be aggressive in pursuing justice and willing to share their findings with other agencies, like the FBI, who have made public corruption prosecution a top priority,” adds Davis.
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