Renzi lawyers accuse feds of leaks

AzCentral:

A lawyer for U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi on Friday accused the Justice Department of leaking information on an investigation of the Arizona congressman so he would talk about it on a wiretapped cell phone.

Renzi attorney Reid Weingarten told Magistrate Bernardo Velasco in Tucson that the leaks to media amount to misconduct. A prosecutor said the government investigated the leaks but couldn’t find a source.

?This wiretap over a month recorded over 50 calls with lawyers,? Weingarten said during the second day of a hearing on the retiring Republican’s request to have corruption charges dismissed. ?These were real lawyers, and they were real attorney-client privileged conversations.?

Posted by Stacy on December 5th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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    Karen Says:

    Hey AZ Congress Watch, aka Stacy!

    It’s so good to discover you back again and thank you. I can, once again, save lots of my time trying to keep up with our CD1 sleezy Renzi’s legal wrangleings and our state legislators because you’ve resumed your much missed postings. I hope you continue, because it’s going to be even rougher on us engaged Arizonans when Janet’s gone.

    Posted on December 5th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
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    Stacy Says:

    Thanks, Karen! And thanks to Google Reader and some new Firefox extensions, AZCW takes only a fraction of the time that it used to. (Though why is Trent Franks the only one in our entire delegation with an RSS feed? Hi, it’s almost 2009…)

    Posted on December 7th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
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