But on Monday, the racing commission claimed it was the NMHA that had been caught with its \u201chands in the cookie jar\u201d by \u201cwrongfully taking money from purses and calling it member dues.\u201d<\/p>\n
The New Mexico Racing Commission will always follow state statute and that is what we are doing. I’m sure once the Ethics Commission looks at the substance of their complaint, it will be summarily dismissed,”<\/strong> it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn its ethics complaint, the NMHA asserted that it efficiently oversaw the distribution of tens of millions of dollars in purse money in the last two decades. Independent audits showed that \u201cnot even a penny has ever been lost or found out of place,\u201d the association claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A complaint filed by the New Mexico Horsemen\u2019s Association (NMHA) accuses the state\u2019s racing and gaming regulators of protecting private racetracks that allegedly siphoned off millions of dollars. The complaint was filed on Feb. 24 with the New Mexico State Ethics Commission and announced Monday. It claims the New Mexico Racing Commission and the New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":203354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14577,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
New Mexico Horse Racing Regulator Faces Ethics Complaint<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n