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20070426
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 Renzi
-  Domenici
-  Wilson
- Hastings
-  Ariz
-  NM
- Seattle
- WA
- 2006
Election - US
Attorneys -  Law
- "Renzi
Aide Called U.S. Attorney to Ask About Probe: Chief
of Staff Inquired About Land Deal Investigation; Prosecutor Among Eight
Who Were Fired." ... "The top aide to [Arizona Republican Representative]
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) called the office of Arizona's U.S. attorney
about six weeks before the prosecutor was fired, inquiring about a federal
probe into the congressman's role in a land deal that benefited a former
business partner and political patron." ... "The former U.S. attorney,
Paul K. Charlton, told House investigators this week that his office alerted
the Justice Department's headquarters about the call from Renzi's chief
of staff, Brian Murray, because he considered it potentially improper,
according to congressional sources who spoke about the probe on the condition
of anonymity. Justice rules require prosecutors to report contacts from
members of Congress seeking information about investigations." ... "The
incident means that Charlton was the third of eight U.S. attorneys forced
to resign last year who had reported to Justice officials that Republican
members of Congress or their staffs made inappropriate overtures to their
offices about politically sensitive investigations they were supervising."
... "The former U.S. attorney for New Mexico, David C. Iglesias, has told
Congress he felt pressured to speed up an indictment of Democrats during
phone calls last October from [New Mexico Republican Senator] Sen.
Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and [New Mexico Republican Representative]
Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R-N.M.). And former U.S. attorney John McKay of
Seattle has said he was called by the chief of staff to [Washington Republican
Representative] Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) about a preliminary inquiry
into [2006 election] voter fraud in Washington state." -By
Amy Goldstein and Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost
20070306
-
Hastings
- Ed
Cassidy
-
 Boehner
-  Ohio
-  California
- Washington
- 2004
Election - US
Attorneys - Law
- "Hearing
on U.S. attorney's ouster reveals Hastings' office contacted McKay."
... "During the recount of the hotly contested 2004 governor's race in
Washington state, the chief of staff to [Washington state Republican Representative]
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., called former U.S. Attorney John McKay to inquire
about the status of any federal investigations into voter fraud, McKay
told a Senate committee today." ... "McKay told the Senate Judiciary Committee
that Ed Cassidy, who now works for [Ohio Republican Representative] Republican
Minority Leader John Boehner, called him "some weeks" following the 2004
election, and after a third re-count had determined that Democrat Christine
Gregoire had narrowly defeated Republican Dino Rossi." ... ""I was told
the purpose of the call was to inquire on behalf of congressman Hastings"
about the status of ongoing investigations of voter fraud, McKay said in
response to a question from [California Democratic Senator] Sen. Dianne
Feinstein." ... "McKay said that he informed Cassidy that the office of
the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington had already asked
the public to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation with any evidence
of voter fraud, so it could be investigated." ... "Cassidy then began to
ask McKay whether any future action would be taken by the U.S. Attorney's
office with regard to the governor's race." ... ""When Mr. Cassidy called
me on future action I stopped him and I told him I was sure that he wasn't
asking me on behalf" of Congressman Hastings, McKay told the committee,
"because we both knew that would be improper. [Cassidy] agreed it would
be improper and he ended the conversation in a most expeditious manner.""
-By David Bowermaster, Mike Carter and Alicia Mundy
-SeattleTimes.NWsource
20050625
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 US
-  UK
-  Canada
-  WV
- Washington
- Hastings
-  DeLay
-  Abramoff
- Ed
Cassidy
-  Nuclear
-  Money
- Travel
- Law
- "Ethics
claims target Doc Hastings." ... "[Washington state
Republican Representative] Rep. Doc Hastings, already under fire as chairman
of the stalled House ethics committee, accepted a $7,800 trip to England
[UK] in 2000 from a company he championed for a multibillion-dollar contract
at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, records released by an advocacy group
yesterday show." ... "In addition, other records released yesterday by
a political Web site show that Hastings, a Republican from Pasco, did not
file a required travel report for a 2004 trip to a resort on Stuart Island,
B.C. [British Columbia, Canada] That was paid for by another company also
working at Hanford." ... "Hastings has been under fire for not scheduling
hearings on ethics allegations against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
DeLay is accused of accepting a trip paid for by lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
who is under investigation over allegations that he defrauded clients of
millions of dollars." ... "The ethics committee has been stalled for six
weeks. Democrats, led by ranking member Alan Mollohan [Representative]
of West Virginia, declined to meet after Hastings proposed making his longtime
chief of staff, Ed Cassidy, staff director for the committee." ... "Mollohan
said that violates rules that say professional staffers who take part in
investigations of House members must be nonpartisan and elected by committee
members."I don't think it's possible to make the rule clearer," he said.
"It is very simple."" -By Alicia Mundy
-SeattleTimes
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