The Santa Fe New Mexican, July 17, 2014

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Ex-Gov. Anaya settles fraud suit SEC case centers on green company secretly headed by scofflaws By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Former New Mexico Gov. Toney Anaya has settled a securities fraud case involving a company he headed that claimed to recycle water and

materials but “had no revenue,” according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. An SEC statement released Wednesday said Anaya, Toney Anaya 73, was one of four people charged with concealing from investors that two lawbreakers ran the company. The

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former governor and state attorney general has settled with the government. “Anaya has cooperated extensively with the SEC’s investigation,” a news release from the SEC said. Anaya is accused of hiding from investors the fact that two “consultants” with past law violations — Joseph A. Corazzi of Albuquerque and James E. Cohen of Florida — secretly controlled the operational and management deci-

sions of the company. Reached Tuesday morning, Anaya told The New Mexican, “I can’t comment until the investigation of the others is completed.” According to the SEC, any financial penalties against Anaya will be determined later. The case revolves around a company called Natural Blue Resources, originally incorporated in Delaware

Floodwaters wreak havoc in Pojoaque

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Martin Aguero, with help from friends Ruben Arryo and Daniel Caballero on Wednesday, cleans up the mess left at his home in the Pojoaque Terrace Mobile Home Estates after floodwaters devastated the community on Tuesday. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Residents begin cleanup efforts after rains ravage mobile home park By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

eborah Martinez had just come back from a camping trip with family Tuesday night, when she heard a roar and a crash outside her home at the Pojoaque Terrace Mobile Home Estates. It had been raining when they arrived, and she had just brought in the dogs. “I opened the door, and it was like a nightmare,” Martinez said. Water was rushing by just below the front door. The floodwaters had pushed the front steps away from the mobile home, toppled a storage shed and taken out a gas line. “This all happened in about 15 minutes,” Martinez said. Emergency personnel and police told all residents in the mobile home park to evacuate Tuesday night, due to the broken natural gas pipeline. Residents had to wait until the

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SFPS launches recruiting effort for new diploma program. PAGE A-7

Nowhere to flee Gaza civilians urged to leave homes often have no place to go. PAGE A-4

By Milan Simonich

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Engaging dropouts

Rep., Heinrich differ on driving force of surge

Obituaries

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Pearce: Migrants fleeing for economic reasons

By Uriel J. Garcia

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Officer quit in January over questions about work hours.

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Board dodges issue of lethal-force training but alters fitness policy

ALBUQUERQUE — The state Law Enforcement Academy board on Wednesday unanimously approved some curriculum changes, reversing policies adopted last December on physical fitness requirements and scores cadets must achieve to pass a firearms test. The board said the age- and gender-neutral fitness exam the academy had begun using would make it more difficult to recruit women to New Mexico police forces, and it raised the required firearms test score. But the board didn’t take any action on parts of the academy curriculum that have drawn the most public concern — policies on use-offorce training for police cadets. Citing fears in Albuquerque and other communities over recent officer-involved shootings, members of the public urged the board Wednesday to revisit what speakers called “shoot-first, ask-questionslater” training advocated by academy Director Jack Jones. But board members did not directly address the public comments. During a break in the meeting, neither Jones nor board member Nate Korn would discuss the issue with a reporter for The New Mexican. The New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy trains recruits for police departments across the state. Agencies such as the New Mexico State Police and the Albuquerque Police Department have their own training programs, but the content of their basic training courses is established by the state academy. At Jones’ urging, the academy late last year adopted a curriculum

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Edith Torres, 15, and her father, Jose Torres, speak about a devastating storm that damaged their home.

floodwaters receded from a height of more than 3 feet before they could leave. Many spent the night in rooms offered by the Cities of Gold Casino. Others stayed with family. On Wednesday, they returned

to the park, west of U.S. 84/285 off Camino Cerrado, to dig out from mud, pile up debris, rescue what sodden goods they could and

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The New Mexican

Republican Congressman Steve Pearce said Wednesday that most immigrants from Central America who are crossing illegally into the United States are driven by economic reasons, not fear of physical danger in their homeland. Hours later, Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Rep. Steve gave a much differPearce ent assessment. He said the United States is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis in which thousands of scared children from Central America are surrendering as soon as they reach what they believe is the safe haven of the Texas border. Heinrich, of Albuquerque, said unaccompanied children making the long, treacherous trip to the United States are arriving with name tags

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Group aims to ensure ‘digital assets’ won’t die with you Proposal grants loved ones access to online accounts By Anne Flaherty The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — You’ve probably decided who gets the house or that family heirloom up in the attic when you die. But what about your email account and all those photos stored online? Grieving relatives might want access for sentimental reasons, or to settle financial issues. But

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do you want your mom reading your exchanges on an online dating profile or a spouse going through every email? The Uniform Law Commission, whose members are appointed by state governments to help standardize state laws, on Wednesday endorsed a plan that would give loved ones access to — but not control of — the deceased’s digital accounts, unless specified otherwise in a will. To become law in a state, the legislation would have to be adopted by the Legislature. If it did, a person’s online life could become as much a part of estate

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A printout of Loren Williams’ Facebook page. Williams died in a 2005 motorcycle accident. A group of influential lawyers endorsed a plan that would automatically give loved ones access to all digital accounts, unless otherwise specified in a will. AP FILE PHOTO

planning as deciding what to do with physical possessions. “This is something most people don’t think of until they are faced with it. They have no idea what is about to be lost,”

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said Karen Williams of Beaverton, Ore., who sued Facebook for access to her 22-year-old son Loren’s account after he died in

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