DWI Deception: Why now?
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal prosecutors announced a plea deal for one of the key players in the alleged DWI deception scheme. The man in-charge of the federal prosecution will likely be out of a job before the case is completed.
United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico Alex Uballez, a President Biden appointee, is expected to be removed for a President Trump appointee at any day.
4 Investigates asked: “Is this a politically timed motivation to put this out?”
“It was not,” Uballez said. “I think that if it were politically timed, I probably would have timed it for a day I’d know I’d be in office, instead of a week after I thought I’d be gone.”
Uballez said his only regret was, “not being able to deliver more swift justice to people, including in this case.”
“I was following every single piece of evidence that we’ve had throughout this case,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda. “Coming to a point where we felt, okay, this is what we’re ready to do. The step that we took on Friday, and that’s what kind of dictated everything.”
Now the FBI is soliciting victims of the DWI deception scam, or anyone with knowledge of the alleged criminal scheme to contact them.
“There’s a lot more to this investigation that hasn’t been revealed,” Bujanda said. “It will be in due time. But it’s better for people to come forward and get ahead of things, then to sit back and hope that they don’t come get me.”
Bujanda said the best way to regain the public’s trust is to hold the bad actors accountable.
“It’s people paying for the crimes that they have committed,” Bujanda said. “It’s these law enforcement officers that are no longer that stop being a law enforcement officer. The very moment they decided to take a dollar from someone because they thought they wanted to go ahead and enrich themselves instead of doing the right thing.”
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