Jury finds Angel Fire mayor ‘knowingly violated’ state procurement code in million-dollar marketing contract – John Miller, Albuquerque Journal
An 8th Judicial District Court jury has found that Angel Fire Mayor Barry “B.J.” Lindsey “knowingly violated” the New Mexico Procurement Code after hiring a marketing agency for the village outside of a competitive bidding process and under a contract that included an illegal prepayment clause.
The New Mexico Ethics Commission sued the mayor in 2024 after investigating a series of complaints that alleged Lindsey and his staff failed to issue a request for proposals seeking competitive bids for the contract, which Lindsey awarded to Carristo Creative Consulting LLC of Albuquerque that year for over $1 million…