PRC chief of staff receives threatening phone call

From Capitol Report New Mexico.com - Another strange twist in the Jerome Block Jr. case. A commissioner on the Public Regulation Commission announced at Thursday’s public meeting (Aug. 11) that a member of the PRC staff had received a threatening phone call to his home in regards to the embattled PRC commissioner. Commissioner Ben Hall did not give specifics regarding the contents of the call but after the meeting, fellow commissioner and PRC chairman Pat Lyons confirmed that chief of staff Johnny Montoya (shown in picture) had received a phone call making a threat against Montoya, although Lyons did not go into details of what the caller allegedly said to the chief of staff. When asked for his reaction to the news, Lyons told reporters, “I don’t like it at all. It shouldn’t be happening. It’s a bad atmosphere. Hopefully, nothing comes of it.” Read more