Thread: Obama nominee embroiled in crime-stats scandal

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Obama nominee embroiled in crime-stats scandal
U.S. attorney pick may have improperly sought records on illegal alien
Posted: November 03, 2009
10:27 pm Eastern

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Democratic Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is defending President Obama's choice for U.S. attorney in Colorado as questions are raised over her alleged involvement in accessing a restricted federal crime database while she was working on Ritter's campaign.

Another person facing similar accusations was charged with accessing the database without having a legitimate crime-prevention reason after information about a case Ritter dealt with appeared in an ad critical of the governor. But after a jury cleared agent Cory Voorhis of all charges, he was fired by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

According to the Denver Post, Ritter yesterday defended Stephanie Villafuerte, nominated by Obama to be U.S. attorney for Colorado, on the Mike Rosen show on KOA-AM radio.

Villafuerte has declined to answer questions about conversations she may have had with the Denver district attorney's office when it accessed the restricted database regarding a suspect named Carlos Estrada-Medina.

Estrada-Medina became a campaign issue because while Ritter was district attorney, Estrada-Medina was allowed to plead to minor charges of "agricultural trespass," even though he had been arrested on heroin trafficking charges.

Instead of being deported or indicted on drug charges, he was released in Colorado and went to California, where he was accused of committing sexual assault on a minor.


Cory Voorhis

WND previously reported that ICE's Voorhis was accused of accessing the federal database to get information
on the suspect, information that subsequently was used in an ad challenging Ritter.

Voorhis was put on trial on the charges and was acquitted. ICE, nevertheless, fired Voorhis, and he is challenging the decision.

In a column in WND, five-term Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., recounted the "persecution" of Voorhis for revealing that Ritter cut dozens, probably hundreds, of "sweetheart deals" for illegal immigrants as a prosecutor.

"Voorhis went public in September 2006 with the facts about the plea bargaining practices of former Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter, who happened to also be a candidate for governor of Colorado," Tancredo wrote.

"During Ritter's tenure as Denver DA, 241 illegal aliens were given sweetheart deals for the explicit purpose of helping them minimize the risk of deportation. Some of them went on to commit other, more serious crimes, and when one of those cases was made public with Voorhis' help, he was targeted for criminal investigation at the behest of the Ritter for Governor campaign," Tancredo said.

The Denver Post reported Ritter contended, however, Villafuerte "did nothing wrong."

"As a person working for the campaign [she] did a host of things to try to independently verify this identity of Carlos Estrada-Medina and could not do it," Ritter said on the radio show. "She had people who were getting public records. We as a campaign employed individuals – interns – to go to the courthouse and get the records.

"We got nothing from the DA's office," he claimed.

But the newspaper reported law enforcement officers know the Denver DA's office as well as a Texas investigator ran Estrada-Medina's name through the National Crime Information Center system about the same time Voorhis accessed the information.

The paper reported Villafuerte, on leave from the Denver DA's office to work on Ritter's campaign, left a telephone message at the DA's office about Estrada-Medina just before the office accessed the database.

But the report said the FBI agents looking into the Voorhis case apparently never asked Villafeurte about her message or about the series of phone calls she exchanged with the office over the coming days.

State GOP chief Dick Wadhams told the newspaper there's a conflict, since Ritter previously claimed there was no way the campaign for Republican candidate Bob Beauprez could have obtained the Estrada-Medina information without the NCIC.

"If that's the only way Bob Beauprez could've gotten that information, how could Gov. Ritter sit there on that radio show and say his campaign tried to independently get that information?" Wadhams asked. "This is a total contradiction by Gov. Ritter, and I think it deepens the cloud of suspicion that hangs over Stephanie Villafuerte and Gov. Bill Ritter himself."

The newspaper said in 2007 the spokeswoman for the Denver DA's office said there was a "high probability" she had spoken with someone at the Ritter campaign about the information from the NCIC on Estrada-Medina.

Voorhis reported he accessed the information – which, without an investigatory purpose, can be a criminal offense – with the approval of his supervisor.

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There are probably as many criminals in the White House as there are in some prisons .

We have Wright ,Ayers, Clintons with their trails of body bags , President acts of treason according to his acceptance of the UN Chairman of the UN Secret Council He violated Art.1,Sec.9 Clause 7 of the Constitution . Most of the others were criminals too just not as dumb about getting caught .

We are running out of time, thats why so many of us work so hard to try to stop the insanety .