Arizona has the most lax gun laws in the country and with that comes stories like this (via Politics in the Zeros): The seizure of more than 700 guns and the indictments of 34 people announced on Tuesday are further confirmation that Arizona has become an iron highway for weapons into Mexico, according to federal […]
I have reported previously about the criminal problems facing my home county in Ohio. Today another big Republican name has been indicted: A former Butler County commissioner, state lawmaker and Children Services director has been indicted on federal charges. Mike Fox was indicted on six charges of mail or wire fraud, while attorney Robert Schuler […]
It looks like Bill Richardson will be cleared of any wrong doing in the pay to play scandal: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won’t be criminally charged in a yearlong federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the Democratic governor’s large political donors, someone familiar with the […]
Today’s New York Times has a look at a newly released report on voter fraud that is very interesting. It appears that a lot of politics may have gone into this report to change the outcome, and the final report was approved by the 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat on the commission. A federal panel […]
The document dump from the Department of Justice has shown one very well-known name on the list of those to possibly be fired: U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves” on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the […]
Thanks to Nichole we have this flashback where Bush had the prosecutor in Guam removed. The prosecutor had a grand jury and was investigating none other than Jack Abramoff: A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal […]
Old Pete must be getting worried: Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) has hired a top defense attorney to handle the pending ethics investigation into allegations that he pressured a federal prosecutor to bring indictments against New Mexico Democrats on the eve of the 2006 elections. Lee Blalack, who recently represented former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham […]
Next week the House will hold hearings on the firing of federal prosecutors. John Conyers issued the first subpoenas since the Democrats took over in this case. He subpoenaed the fired prosecutors to testify before the Judiciary Committee, which Conyers chairs. It has also come out now that Heather Wilson and Pete Domenci were the […]
That is the latest piece by Froomkin in today’s WaPo talking about the Libby trial: There is a cloud over the vice president . . . And that cloud remains because this defendant obstructed justice,” Fitzgerald said. “There is a cloud over the White House. Don’t you think the FBI and the grand jury and […]
San Diego Union Tribune: A federal grand jury issued indictments on Tuesday against Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former high-ranking CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, childhood friends from San Diego who are embroiled in the Randy “Duke” Cunningham congressional corruption scandal. The U.S. Attorney’s office wouldn’t comment on the matter, but has scheduled a […]