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, who asked for the contents of the interview to help prepare for Renzi’s upcoming trial, which is scheduled for October.
The aides were interviewed about land exchanges, according to an April letter from Humetewa filed with the U.S. District Court of Arizona late last week. The letter did not indicate when the interviews occurred.
A federal land swap critical to developing a $3 billion copper mine southeast of Phoenix is at the heart of the case against Renzi, who is facing 35 public corruption charges, including conspiracy, money-laundering, extortion and insurance fraud. Renzi is retiring at the end of this session.
They also mentioned that they have requested documents from both Arizona senators’ offices. http://thehill.com/...
"If there were any concerns about the behavior of McCain or Kyl, it would have been raised by the Department of Justice and the Department has not made any suggestions that anybody but Mr. Renzi was behaving improperly," said Jan Baran, a GOP ethics attorney."
My first remark is: THE F'ING GOP has an "ethics attorney"? Where's he been hiding for the last 7.5 years?
The Federal Agents have also requested some documents from McCain, which as of April 14 they had not received.
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Yes, it certainly looks as if "W"orthless Bush has handed the baton to McCain. They have surrounded themselves with corrupt, inept, egregious cronies. Nothing different about the two, except one went to Vietnam and one went AWOL!
As for getting records from McCain, don't hold your breath. He'll be taking his own sweet time on that like both he and Bush do with any sort of required public disclosure. So much for the transparent administration McCain has been lying about for weeks. I recall Bush in 2000 saying that he would have the most honest and tranparent administration in history. See how he kept his word..I'm sure that McBush has the same agenda at hand, given his stubborness about retaining lobbyists like Charlie Black, waiting forever to release his medical reports, which he only let a handful of people look at for 3 hours on an obscure Friday before Memorial Day.
"A McCain spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment on an ongoing investigation, and Kyl’s office did not return a call for comment."
Now...where have we heard that before??????????????????????????