On Wednesday, December 9th, during an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Ranking Republican member Jeff Sessions asked Napolitano about the case of Cory Voorhis. It was the first public indication that Senators are aware of the case and could represent a major turning point - and major trouble for both federal and state government officials involved in it. On Friday, December 11th, according to a Denver Post report, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would re-open the investigation into Voorhis’ supervisor based on evidence of perjury (more on this below). Given similar but until now not publicized problems for other senior officials in the Denver office of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency ("ICE"), this could be the first crack in a massive dam of federal malfeasance and subsequent cover-up.

[You can read about the Voorhis saga below, or for more detail you can read my prior articles about it HERE and HERE, and skip in this article down to the new information regarding the corruption within the Denver ICE office.]

After several grueling years working along the US-Mexico border, including hand-to-hand combat with an illegal alien who was trying to kill him, Border Patrol agent (and US Army veteran of the Gulf War) Cory Voorhis was offered a promotion to special agent and a transfer to the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Denver office.

Little did he know that the office, which later became part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency ("ICE"), was a haven of incompetence and corruption, with senior federal agents who would soon betray him and their oaths to uphold the law.

Three years after a politically-motivated prosecution, Voorhis stands acquitted by a jury of all charges but the Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") office remains a haven for malfeasance and cover-up - a situation which is now coming to the attention of the U.S. Senate.

In September, 2006, now-ICE agent Cory Voorhis saw a Denver Post article in which former Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter, then a candidate for governor, blamed federal agents, i.e. ICE, for not removing enough illegal alien criminals from Colorado. Voorhis was incensed by this accusation, since Ritter’s policy of letting criminal aliens arrested for felonies plead down to non-deportable offenses such as “trespassing on farm landâ€