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KIKO News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The Arizona Daily Star reports that First District Congressman Rick Renzi’s criminal trial has been postponed until March of 2009. A US District Judge in Tucson has set trial for March 24, acting on a motion filed jointly by prosecution and defense lawyers. Renzi faces a 35 count indictment that includes conspiracy, wire fraud, extortion, money laundering and insurance fraud. He has pleaded not guilty....
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Just before school let out, students at Alpine Elementary were thrilled to see a new American flag flying in front of their school—only it wasn’t just any old flag. The new American flag flying in front of Alpine School once flew over the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C…In a Feb. 26 letter from U.S. Congressman Rick Renzi, included with the new flag, Renzi told students their commitment to...
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KIKO News (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
A businessman who is named in an indictment with Congressman Rick Renzi has been convicted on unrelated charges of lying to a federally insured financial institution. The US Attorney’s Office in eastern Texas says that James Sandlin failed to disclose a nearly $1 million debt obligation in personal financial statements that he gave to a bank in Sherman, Texas. The office says Sandlin borrowed the money...
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The Eagle Texas and Region (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
PHOENIX (AP) -- A businessman named in an indictment with Arizona congressman Rep. Rick Renzi has been convicted in Texas on unrelated charges of lyin ...
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The Hollywood Liberal (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
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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Random Musings (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
From The Hill - Federal agents interviewed staffers for likely Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as part of their corruption case against Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa and fellow prosecutors disclosed the interviews with aides for McCain and fellow Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl in a written response to Renzi’s attorneys,...
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The Liberal Avenger (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Prosecutors investigating Arizona representative Rick Renzi on corruption charges are questioning members of John McCain's staff, and have requested documents that McCain has yet to provide. What's interesting is that the Renzi probe centers on a federal land swap. Land swaps that benefited McCain contributors have raised questions about McCain's relationship with lobbyists and fundraisers (link [...]...
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Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Arizona extremist John Shadegg has a hearing problem The last time I posted a big story about extremist Arizona Republican kook John Shadegg I was immediately called by his attorneys threatening to sue me if I didn't take down a page from the book, Below The Beltway which accused him of bonking the then wife of then-Congressman Jon Christensen, Meredith Stewart Maxfield . The lawyers said they have...
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Election Law (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
The Hill reports that "Federal agents interviewed staffers for likely Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as part of their corruption case against Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.)."...
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KIKO News (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Lawyers for First District Congressman Rick Renzi are asking a judge to seal wiretaps that government investigators obtained of conversations between Renzi and his lawyers, and to order federal prosecutors not to review them. The Associated Press reports that motions were filed Thursday in federal court in Tucson. They also seek to have the government return all the recordings to Renzi’s lawyers and...
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Capitol Briefing (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
As expected, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has decided to hold off on its investigation of indicted Rep. Rick Renzi (R) out of deference to the Justice Department's own probe of the Arizonan. Renzi was indicted in February on 35 counts of money laundering, extortion and other offenses related to a federal land-swap scheme and his alleged embezzlement of money from his own company...
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Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Two Arizona members of the U.S. House of Representatives want to prohibit the creation of human-animal embryos and the use of the hybrid embryonic mix for medical and scientific research. U.S. Reps. Rick Renzi and Trent Franks back a federal...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
The House Ethics Committee has suspended its inquiry into bribery allegations against Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Arizona, to allow the Justice Department to carry out its criminal investigation
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KIKO News (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Congressman Rick Renzi announces that Congress has approved technical corrections to a large transportation package that was originally passed in 2005. A key provision in the bill would lessen the local share of funding for federally supported road projects in Arizona from 20% to 5.7%. Renzi says this will save Gila County taxpayers more than half a million dollars on the Tonto Creek Bridge project....
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Try as they may, the GOP just can't catch a break in the open seat race to replace the embattled Rep. Rick Renzi. It appears that their extensive efforts to recruit former state Senate President Ken Bennett to join the race have failed : Prescott Republican and former Arizona Senate President Ken Bennett told The Insider this afternoon that he has decided against a campaign for the 1st congressional...
