$750,000 for duplicate investigation

The New Mexico Finance Authority has hired an international law firm to investigate "how and why" a fake audit was filed.
They intend to pay up to $750,000 for the investigation.
The investigation will duplicate the investigation by the State Auditors Office.

If both probes are honest and competent, they will have identical findings, and taxpayers will simply be out three-quarters of a million dollars for no reason except to enable corrupt and incompetent public servants begin building their legal defense at taxpayer expense.

These are people who are going to need a whiz bang legal defense to escape the consequences of their corruption and incompetence, and what better way to begin than to have an inside track on the investigation and gathering of the evidence that will be used against them.

Look what APS did with their self-investigation of felony criminal misconduct in their police force, link; they (with the aid and abet of Kent Walz and the Journal) buried the whole thing.

Why do we let corrupt and incompetent public servants investigate themselves?

Why do we allow them to redact their own public records?

Update; during a subsequent meeting of the NMFA, the plans to hire their own investigators was put on hold, at least for the time being.