Prosecutors add charges to Renzi indictment
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
TUCSON - Federal prosecutors have added several new charges to their public corruption indictment against former Rep. Rick Renzi.
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Rick Renzi's Going To Spend A Lot Of Time In Prison-- But What About Jerry Lewis?
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Last year, after months and months of bickering and posturing and half measures, the Republican House leadership finally forced serial criminal Rick Renzi (R-AZ)-- the R is for "racketeer"-- to retire from politics. He was replaced by a quasi-Democrat who votes with the GOP more frequently, at least on important substantive issues, than she votes with the Democrats. (Her ProgressivePunch...
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DOJ Adds Five New Charges Against Ex-Rep. Renzi
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi, who was indicted on 36 counts of corruption in February 2008, now faces an additional five charges
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Rick Renzi Unsuccessfully Tries To Get Evidence Tossed
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
A judge has rejected former Rep. Rick Renzi's attempts to prevent a majority of the evidence gathered from wiretaps and search warrants, as well as interviews with his former aides, from being admitted in his corruption trial. Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco determined that the Arizona Republican's interpretation of constitutional separation-of-powers protections was overly broad and should not protect...
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What Goes Around ...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Lawyers for indicted former Republican congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona are trying to have the federal government held in contempt on the grounds that the Justice Department leaked to the media about his public corruption case for political reasons. It's...
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The Rachel Maddow Show: House Releases New Evidence in U.S. Attorney Scandal
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
DOWNLOADS: (39) PLAYS: (220) Rachel reports on the latest revelations to come out of the U.S. Attorney firings scandal. Maddow: In 2006, nine U.S. federal attorneys, prosecutors, were surprisingly and suddenly fired by the Department of Justice under George W. Bush. U.S. Attorney Paulson Charlton of Arizona was fired while he was in the midst of building a case against Republican Congressman Rick...
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Harriet Miers tried to intervene with DOJ in Rick Renzi Case
Blog For Arizona (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Posted by AzBlue Meanie: The House Judiciary Committee has released the transcripts of interviews under oath of former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and former White House chief of staff Karl Rove. Congress Releases Rove And Miers Interviews On U.S....
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Left blogosphere often gets it right -- and first
Blog For Arizona (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
by David Safier Tedski over at R-Cubed gave himself some well deserved credit for being right about the federal investigation into Rick Renzi's wrong doings back in 2006. The Bush administration was scrambling to keep the investigation quiet, at least...
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More on Bush firings of US Attorneys
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Using the apparatus of state to target your political enemies. One might even call it un-American: The dismissal of U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias of New Mexico in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats, according to newly released e-mails and transcripts...
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Renzi Follow Up
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Three years ago, you may remember that I wrote about something fishy going on around the US Attorney’s office investigation of Rick Renzi. My post got pooh-poohed even by some liberal bloggers and the talk of any investigation was dismissed out of hand by the Arizona Republic, but in the meantime, we’ve found out that [...]
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Renzi and his lawyers object...
Random Musings (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
...to a federal judge ruling that the Constitution doesn't protect criminal conspiracies... From AP via KTAR.com - Lawyers for former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi are objecting to a federal magistrate's denial of their motion to dismiss the public corruption case against him on constitutional grounds. Renzi's lawyers contend that the government violated the U.S. Constitution's speech and debate clause in wiretapping...
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SCOTT HORTON—Did a Bush Justice Figure Obstruct the Renzi Investigation?
Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Why was Paul K. Charlton, the man appointed by George W. Bush in 2001 as U.S. attorney in Arizona, fired from his job in the immediate wake of the 2006 election? Charlton was pursuing a corruption investigation into G.O.P. Congressman Rick Renzi. Karl Rove and his acolytes in the White House were deeply concerned that information about the investigation could cost the G.O.P. a vital seat in the House....
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A Little More Tarnish for the Bush Legacy
En Tequila Es Verdad (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
I do believe that at the end of the day, the Bush regime will go down in American history as the most corrupt, dirty, rotten and downright disgusting administration ever. They're already the biggest bunch of scoundrels seen on our national stage, and the revelations just keep coming : In an important new article from Murray Waas, writing at The Hill , we have at long last fresh news on the Rick Renzi...
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Bush Administration Tipped Off Corrupt GOP Rep. To Wiretap: Officials
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
In the fall of 2006, one day after the Justice Department granted permission to a U.S. attorney to place a wiretap on a Republican congressman suspected of corruption, existence of the investigation was leaked to the press -- not only compromising the sensitive criminal probe but tipping the lawmaker off to the wiretap. Career federal law enforcement officials who worked directly on a probe of former...
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Like an Episode of The Wire
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Did top political appointees in the Bush Justice Department leak about an investigation of then-Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) to swing the 2006 election in Renzi's favor and blow up a wiretap on Renzi in the process? Murray Waas reports....
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