Thank you Sen. Sessions!

Villafuerte Withdraws as Nominee for Colorado US Attorney

by Ross Kaminsky

12/15/2009

Yesterday, less than a week after her name came up in questioning by Senate Judicary Committee Ranking Republican Jeff Sessions (Ala), Stephanie Villafuerte withdrew her name from consideration for the position of US Attorney from Colorado.

Her nomination -- from the post of deputy chief of staff to Colorado Governor Bill Ritter -- reopened a simmering scandal in Colorado. It’s a saga which, even with Villafuerte’s withdrawal, may threaten not only the Ritter Administration but also several senior federal law enforcement officials in the Denver Office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (“ICEâ€