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DOJ Adds Five New Charges Against Ex-Rep. Renzi
Former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi, who was indicted on 36 counts of corruption in February 2008, now faces an additional five charges
Renzi's Lawyers Argue Bush DOJ Leaked Info For Political Gain On Eve Of Election
We now have the lawyers of a former Republican Congressman arguing that the Bush Administration encouraged the Justice Department to leak information on an ongoing probe for "partisan political reasons." The twist comes in a motion filed Thursday in the...
Dana Perino On US Attorney Firings Scheme: 'I Can't Breathe'
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/politics/Dana_Perino_On_US_Attorney_Firings_Scheme_I_Can_t_Breathe'; This is fun. In the trove of Bush White House documents released by the House Judiciary Committee is an email chain from November 2006 in which Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino first learns of the plan...
E-Mails: On Election Eve, Miers Tried To Intervene With DOJ About Sensitive Renzi Case
It's just days before the mid-term elections, and you're sitting in the White House watching a close Congressional race when it bubbles up that the the Republican incumbent, long dogged by corruption rumors, is under federal investigation. That's the situation...
House Judiciary Breaks Down 'Key Facts' In New White House Docs
Below is a press release from the House Judiciary Committee on new facts about DOJ politicization brought to light by interviews with Karl Rove and Harriet Miers along with 5,400 pages of White House and RNC e-mails....
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Some things don't change. The Bush administration has just 46 days before its time expires, but that isn't stopping it from running roughshod over Congress in an effort to loosen environmental regulation. The Interior Department issued a new rule Thursday...
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The Texas Ethics Commission will hold a public hearing today to review the case of state Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht. Hecht, a Republican, is accused of receiving discounted rates in 2006 from the law firm Jackson Walker when he...
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House leaders voiced their support for the Constitution's "speech or debate clause" -- a provision designed to protect members of congress from being arrested for their legislative activities -- in a brief filed Monday in the case of outgoing Arizona...
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The legal troubles of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) began last February, when an Arizona grand jury charged the congressman with using his post to influence a federal land deal benefiting a former business partner, and indicted him on 35 counts...
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Insurance giant AIG spent $343,000 on an executive retreat to an Arizona resort last week, despite a financial situation so dire that the Treasury Department agreed to give the firm another $150 billion in taxpayer money Monday. The company has...
Renzi: Gov't Listened to GOP Leadership Meetings Through Wiretap
Lawyers for Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) have alleged in new court filings that the FBI "recorded dozens of sensitive conversations concerning House leadership races" after the 2006 elections, reports The Hill. Days after the Democrats won control of Congress, say...
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Those keeping a tally of Wall Street businesses facing federal investigation should add one more to the list. The bank Washington Mutual, whose failure in September represented one of the largest in financial history, is the subject of a government...
The OIG Report: Tying Up Loose Ends
In the almost two years that TPMmuckraker has been covering the scandal over the removal of the U.S. attorneys, there have been many questions raised over the reasons behind the firings. On Monday, the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector...
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NATO's top commander in Afghanistan called for a joint investigation into a recent U.S. airstrike. The United States has maintained that only five civilians were killed in the attack, contradicting reports by Afghan officials, human rights groups, and the United...
McCain Staffers Questioned in Corruption Probe
Federal prosecutors questioned staffers of Sen. John McCain as part of their corruption investigation of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ). U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa and fellow prosecutors disclosed the interviews with aides for McCain and...
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Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, fired by the Bush administration under suspect circumstances, speaks out in an interview with this Sunday's edition of the New York Times Magazine. Iglesias, now calling himself a "disillusioned Republican," ruminates on Karl Rove's role...
Renzi Wiretaps Picked Up Other Lawmakers
From The Hill: FBI wiretaps picked up the voices of several members of Congress in their conversations with Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). The House General Counsel’s office recently notified those members after the Department of Justice (DOJ) told the House...
Supreme Court Refuses Appeal of Jefferson Decision
Roll Call reports (sub. req.) that the court has rebuffed the Justice Department's request for an appeal of last summer's decision. That decision by the D.C. Court of Appeals in Rep. William Jefferson's (D-LA) case found that Constitutional protections meant...
Renzi Lawyers Signal Constitutional Challenge to Charges
From CQ: Embattled Rep. Rick Renzi , R-Ariz., has asked a federal judge in Arizona to delay his scheduled April 29 trial on conspiracy, fraud, extortion and money laundering charges stemming from a land-swap deal. Prosecutors will not oppose the...
Pro-Life Renzi Allegedly Bilked Pro-Life Groups for House Run
Justin over at ABC has more on that insurance fraud part of last month's indictment against Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ ): Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., allegedly defrauded dozens of pro-life organizations for hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund his...
