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Iglesias: Evidence Of Politicization By Arizona Sheriff "Felt Very Familiar"
Zachary Roth | November 2, 2009, 2:37PM
Fmr. US Attorney (NM) David Iglesias
David Iglesias is comparing Sheriff Joe Arpaio's alleged targeting of political foes to the notorious Rove-Gonzales politicization of DOJ, which led to Iglesias's own improper firing.
The evidence against the Arizona sheriff was "very similar to what was going on at the Department of Justice under the Bush administration," Iglesias said in an interview with TPMmuckraker. "It unfortunately felt very familiar."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (7) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (7)Topics: Alberto Gonzales, David Iglesias, Immigration, Joe Arpaio, Justice Department, Karl Rove, U.S. Attorneys
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Report: FBI Probing Controversial Arizona Sheriff For "Investigating" Political Foes
Zachary Roth | November 2, 2009, 1:12PM
Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the hard-line anti-immigration Arizona sheriff, is being probed by the FBI for allegedly using his authority to retaliate against political adversaries, sources tell a local TV station. One of the key cases cited by Phoenix-based KPHO is one we told you about recently, in which a husband-and-wife team of big-name Washington GOP lawyers was briefly recruited to try to build a case against a local official who had clashed with Arpaio.
In response to the KPHO report, Arpaio bizarrely lashed out at ... David Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney who had dared offer an expert opinion to the station.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (25) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (7)Topics: David Iglesias, Don Stapley, FBI, Immigration, Joe Arpaio, Joseph diGenova, Justice Department, U.S. Attorneys, Victoria Toensing
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Not So Fast! DC GOP Power Couple Roadblocked On Arpaio-Linked Case
Zachary Roth | October 20, 2009, 4:52PM
Republican lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing
The effort by a conservative county prosecutor in Arizona to hire a big-name Washington lawyer power couple to go after a local official has hit a roadblock.
Earlier this month, we told you how Maricopa county prosecutor Andrew Thomas, working closely with the notorious anti-immigrant sheriff Joe Arpaio, had hired Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing, a famed Republican husband-and-wife team, to investigate a local county official -- and political antagonist of both Thomas and Arpaio -- on campaign-finance charges.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (9) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (6)Topics: Andrew Thomas, Don Stapley, Joe Arpaio, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing
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DiGenova -- Clad In Cowboy Boots -- And Toensing Give AZ Presser, Then Meet With Arpaio
Zachary Roth | October 9, 2009, 10:05AM
Republican lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing
We've gotten more detail on that press conference that Washington GOP lawyers Joesph diGenova and Victoria Toensing held in Phoenix yesterday, to talk about their hiring as special prosecutors probing Don Stapley, a Maricopa County official whose high-profile arrest by deputies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio caused a stir recently.
In an apparent effort to blend in, reports the Phoenix New Times, diGenova wore cowboy boots. But aside from that, the limelight-seeking power couple apparently didn't reveal too much.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (9) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: Andrew Thomas, Don Stapley, Joe Arpaio, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing
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Lights, Camera, Action: DC Power Couple Jet Into Arizona For Stapley Presser
Zachary Roth | October 8, 2009, 6:12PM
Republican lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing
Well, that didn't take long...
Just three days after the news was announced that they've been hired to probe campaign finance allegations against a heretofore obscure Arizona county supervisor, Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing went before the cameras in Maricopa County.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (3) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Andrew Thomas, Immigration, Joe Arpaio, Joseph diGenova, Media, Victoria Toensing
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'America's Toughest Sheriff' Teams With Beltway GOP Power Couple In 'Inquisition' Of Arizona Official
Zachary Roth | October 7, 2009, 3:41PM
Republican lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing
Notorious anti-immigrant sheriff Joe Arpaio is working with a husband-and-wife GOP lawyer team that was one of Bill Clinton's biggest tormentors during the 90s, to go after a local Arizona official. But critics are calling the effort a politically motivated fishing expedition. And the defense lawyer on the case knows something about politicized justice: he was one of the US attorneys improperly fired by Alberto Gonzales.
Here's the back-story. It's got a few twists and turns. But stay with us -- it's worth it:
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