and the nationalization of Aerolíneas Argentinas, and judicial inquiries and complaints received against them.” By 2005 there were already many comments being made about his corrupt management of the transport sector, “although no one, of course, makes them aloud” for fear that their subsidies will be withdrawn. On August 26, 2007, Jaime, who at that point had already been formally charged with several offenses, from misappropriation of public funds to concealment of money laundering, was additionally charged with abuse of authority. In the wake of numerous allegations of corruption against him, Jaime resigned three days after the government's defeat in the general elections of June 28, 2009. Jaime said he resigned “for personal reasons," and added that he fully affirmed “my membership in, my loyalty to, my commitment to, and my belief in the project being carried out from the political and institutional point of view [of] the Comrade President and Comrade Néstor Kirchner.” The resignation came amid “rumors about his possible departure” from the cabinet. Lawsuits After Jaime's resignation, he became the defendant in several court cases. He was charged in the federal courts with receiving gifts, in a trial presided over by Judge Claudio Bonadio, and with illegal enrichment, in a trial presided over by Judge Norberto Oyarbide. It was widely noted that Jaime, while earning $10,000 per month, was able to purchase a residence on Avenida del Libertador in an exclusive neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a weekend home in a gated community in San Isidro, a jet, a hotel, a car, a motorcycle, a yacht worth a million dollars, a house in a country club in Córdoba, a summer house in Villa Carlos Paz, and several other weekend houses. His ownership of the jet was revealed on May 22, 2009, in La Nación. In 2009, Manuel Garrido, former Prosecutor of Administrative Investigations, accused Jaime of profiting from the overpricing of rail cars and of taking weekend flights to Brazil on private jets at the expense of companies that received government subsidies. In a case that was first brought in 2009, Jaime was accused of illegal enrichment, with investigators noting his purchase of a $4 million Lear 31A Jet, a $1 million yacht, several cars and SUVs, and other assets while he was Secretary of Transportation. In October 2012 his request that the charges be dismissed as unconstitutional was rejected by Oyarbide. On March 26, 2010, Oyarbide ordered