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</div><div>=</div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="F0F0F0">ManTech InternationalCOMPANYDefense contractor.Principal executive staff as of October 2006: Chairman and CEO George J. Pedersen, President and COO Robert A. Coleman, EVP <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/430/000122064/">Eugene C. Renzi</a>, Gary A. Dorland, Kenneth J. Farquhar, Joseph R. Fox, Jo-An (Jaye) Free, Jay W. Kelley, Kevin M. Phillips, Kurt J. Snapper, Tracy Graves-Stevens.Board of Directors as of October 2006: George J. Pedersen, Robert A. Coleman, <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/416/000024344/">Richard Armitage</a>, Barry G. Campbell, Walter R. Fatzinger, Jr., Admiral David E. Jeremiah, <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/134/000024062/">Richard J. Kerr</a>, Lt. Gen. Kenneth A. Minihan, Stephen W. Porter, Dr. Paul G. Stern.Advisory Board as of October 2006: Gen. Thomas C. Richards, Mary K. Bush, Edward M. (Murray) Cook, Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, Lt. General Lincoln D. Faurer, <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/128/000159648/">Robert W. Fogel</a>, Lt. General Gordon E. Fornell, William H. Geiger, Dr. Roger L. Hagengruber, Dr. Robert J. Hermann, Lt. General Harley A. Hughes, Joseph H. Rothenberg.Official Website:
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5700EXECUTIVES<table border="1" class="sortable" id="sort_company"><tbody><tr class=" even"><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Name</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Occupation</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Birth</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Death</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Known for</a></th></tr><tr class=" odd"><td><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/430/000122064/">Eugene C. Renzi</a></td><td><center>Military</center></td><td align="right"><tt>16-Dec-1933</tt></td><td align="right"><tt>9-Feb-2008</tt></td><td>Army Maj. Gen., ManTech VP</td></tr></tbody></table>CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS<table border="1" class="sortable" id="sort_company"><tbody><tr class=" even"><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Name</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Occupation</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Birth</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Death</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Known for</a></th></tr><tr class=" odd"><td><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/416/000024344/">Richard Armitage</a></td><td><center>Government</center></td><td align="right"><tt>26-Apr-1945</tt></td><td align="right"><tt> </tt></td><td>US Deputy Secretary of State, 2001-05</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/281/000127897/">Mary K. Bush</a></td><td><center>Business</center></td><td align="right"><tt>c. 1949</tt></td><td align="right"><tt> </tt></td><td>Bush International</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/246/000129856/">David E. Jeremiah</a></td><td><center>Military</center></td><td align="right"><tt>25-Feb-1934</tt></td><td align="right"><tt> </tt></td><td>Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs, 1990-94</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/134/000024062/">Richard J. Kerr</a></td><td><center>Government</center></td><td align="right"><tt>4-Oct-1935</tt></td><td align="right"><tt> </tt></td><td>CIA Deputy Director, 1989-92</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/872/000126494/">Paul G. Stern</a></td><td><center>Business</center></td><td align="right"><tt>31-Oct-1938</tt></td><td align="right"><tt> </tt></td><td>CEO of Northern Telecom, 1989-93</td></tr></tbody></table>EXTRANEOUS<table border="1" class="sortable" id="sort_company"><tbody><tr class=" even"><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Name</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Occupation</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Birth</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Death</a></th><th><a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/428/000122062/#" class="sortheader" style="color: black; display: block;">Known for</a></th></tr><tr class=" odd"><td><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/134/000024062/">Richard J. Kerr</a></td><td><center>Government</center></td><td align="right"><tt>4-Oct-1935</tt></td><td align="right"><tt> </tt></td><td>CIA Deputy Director, 1989-92

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</div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb">Controversies[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Controversies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In September 2006, Renzi was named one of the "20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress" in a report by<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a>, a non-partisan watchdog group founded in 2005 by former Democratic congressional staffers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[39]</a> Renzi was also listed in the first report by the organization in January 2006, when he was one of 13 named members. The organization said "His ethics issues stem from the outside income earned by his administrative assistant and from legislation he sponsored that benefitted his father."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[40]</a> He was subsequently listed in CREW's 2007 and 2008 reports as well.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Father's company<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Father's company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Renzi has been criticized for consistently introducing and voting in favor of bills benefiting his father's defense company, ManTech International Corp., a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax,Virginia" title="Fairfax, Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fairfax, Virginia</a>,-based defense contractor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[41]</a> Until his death in February 2008,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[42]</a> Renzi’s father, Retired Major General Eugene Renzi, was an executive vice president of the firm. ManTech had $467 million in contracts at the Army's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Huachuca" title="Fort Huachuca" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fort Huachuca</a> with options for an additional $1.1 billion between 2004 through 2008. In addition, the company, which has an office in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Vista,Arizona" title="Sierra Vista, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sierra Vista, Arizona</a>, was the largest contributor to Renzi’s 2002 congressional campaign and the second largest in his 2004 campaign.In 2003, Renzi sponsored legislation (signed into law in November 2003) that put hundreds of millions of dollars to Eugene's business while, according to environmentalists, devastating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro_River(Arizona)" title="San Pedro River (Arizona)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">San Pedro River</a>. The provision exempted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Huachuca" title="Fort Huachuca" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fort Huachuca</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Vista,Arizona" title="Sierra Vista, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sierra Vista, Arizona</a>, from maintaining water levels in the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro_River(Arizona)" title="San Pedro River (Arizona)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">San Pedro River</a> as called for in an agreement made in 2002 with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</a>. Renzi claimed he introduced the measure to prevent the closing of the Fort and to promote its enlargement. Neither the fort nor the river is located in Renzi’s Congressional district.On October 25, 2006, just two weeks before Election Day, The New York Times reported that federal authorities have opened an inquiry into the case. According to the Times, the "officials said the inquiry was at an early stage and that no search warrants had been issued, suggesting that investigators had yet to determine whether there was a basis to open a formal investigation or empanel a grand jury."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[43]</a>Federal investigators in Arizona reported that unexplained delays were encountered in getting permission from Washington for investigations prior to the 2006 election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-wsjwilke-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a>On April 19, 2007, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">FBI</a> raided his family business, and he temporarily resigned from the House Intelligence Committee.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-AZ-20070420-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a>On February 22, 2008, Renzi was indicted on multiple federal charges as a result of the investigation.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2005 land swap<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2005 land swap" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>According to the Phoenix New Times, in 2002 Renzi sold off a half-interest in his real estate investment business to a fellow investor, James Sandlin, for $200,000. Renzi used the money for his 2002 congressional campaign. In 2003, Renzi sold the remainder of the business to Sandlin, for somewhere between $1 million and $5 million, according to financial records, retaining a "future development interest".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[44]</a>In October 2005, three years after the business transaction with Sandlin, Renzi announced he'd be introducing a bill in Congress that would include a swap of land owned by Sandlin (not in Renzi's district) for federal land near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,Arizona" title="Florence, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Florence, Arizona</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[45]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[46]</a> A week after Renzi's announcement, Sandlin sold his land for $4.5 million,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[47]</a> a much higher price than he paid for it.Renzi told the New Times that he did nothing wrong and that sometime after his announcement he recused himself from the bill after a lobbyist's questioned his connection to Sandlin. The land swap never became law.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-PNT-10-12-06-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[31]</a>In 2007 news came of another $200,000 payment that Sandlin made to Renzi, this one in 2005, that Renzi failed to report on financial disclosure forms.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[48]</a>On October 24, 2006, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. attorney's office in Arizona has opened an investigation into the land swap deal. The US Attorney for Arizona, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K.Charlton(attorney)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul K. Charlton (attorney)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul Charlton</a>, had initiated the investigation in September 2006.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-thenation.com-49" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[49]</a>John Wilke in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wall Street Journal</a> writes,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[50]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"That investigation has now become a formal public-corruption probe by a federal grand jury in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson" class="mw-redirect" title="Tucson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tucson</a>. On Thursday, the grand jury authorized a search warrant of a Renzi family business. Investigators have uncovered evidence that Mr. Renzi received a cash payment from his former business partner, funneled through a family wine company, after a second investor group pursuing an unrelated land swap agreed to pay $4 million for the alfalfa field, according to people contacted in the course of the two-year investigation.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Mr. Renzi denies any wrongdoing and says that he intends to cooperate with the investigation. The search of the family business, he said in a statement Friday, is "the first step toward getting the truth out." His lawyer says the cash payment he received was to settle an unrelated debt.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">The case could add fuel to the firestorm over the Bush administration's firing of federal prosecutors late last year. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K.Charlton(attorney)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul K. Charlton (attorney)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul Charlton</a>, the U.S. Attorney who had been overseeing the case, was among those dismissed at the behest of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" title="White House" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">White House</a>. A spokesman for Mr. Renzi dismissed as "a political hatchet job" the suggestion that Mr. Charlton's firing was connected to the probe of Mr. Renzi. On Thursday, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Attorney General</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alberto Gonzales</a> told Congress that none of the dismissals were politically motivated, and said the Justice Department is committed to battling corruption."</dd></dl>On February 22, 2008, a Federal Grand Jury in Arizona handed up a 35-count indictment charging with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering extortion and insurance fraud.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-cnn2-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div role="note" class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S.attorneys_controversy" title="Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy</a></div><table class="wikitable" cellpadding="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); float: right; padding: 5px; width: 300px; background: rgb(255, 248, 247);"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; text-align: center; background: rgb(255, 204, 204);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S.attorneys_controversy" title="Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy</a>
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W. Bush administration officials involved</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_F.Fielding" title="Fred F. Fielding" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fred F. Fielding</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">White House Counsel</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K.Kelley" title="William K. Kelley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William K. Kelley</a>, Deputy White House Counsel</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moschella" title="William Moschella" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William Moschella</a>, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Tolman" title="Brett Tolman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Brett Tolman</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Attorney</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Utah" title="United States District Court for the District of Utah" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">District of Utah</a>, former counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_Buchanan" title="Mary Beth Buchanan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mary Beth Buchanan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Attorney</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_Pennsylvania" title="United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Western District of Pennsylvania</a>, former Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys from 2004 to 2005</li></ul></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Involved administration officials who resigned</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alberto Gonzales</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Attorney General</a>, former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">White House Counsel</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Sampson" title="Kyle Sampson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Kyle Sampson</a>, Chief of Staff to the Attorney General</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A.Battle" title="Michael A. Battle" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Michael A. Battle</a>, Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elston" title="Michael Elston" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Michael Elston</a>, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Attorney General</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Goodling" title="Monica Goodling" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Monica Goodling</a>, Justice Department's liaison to the White House</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W.Mercer" title="William W. Mercer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William W. Mercer</a>, U.S. Attorney, Acting Associate Attorney General (retains position as U.S. Attorney in Montana)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Taylor" title="Sara Taylor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sara Taylor</a>, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McNulty" title="Paul McNulty" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul McNulty</a>, Deputy Attorney General</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers" title="Harriet Miers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Harriet Miers</a>, former White House Counsel (resigned prior to publicity surrounding the controversy, effective January 31, 2007)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Karl Rove</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Deputy_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Deputy Chief of Staff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">White House Deputy Chief of Staff</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Schlozman" title="Bradley Schlozman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bradley Schlozman</a>, Director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_for_United_States_Attorneys#Executive_Office_for_United_States_Attorneys" class="mw-redirect" title="Executive Office for United States Attorneys" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys</a>; former Acting Assistant Attorney General for, and later Principal Deputy Attorney General for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice_Civil_Rights_Division" title="United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Civil Rights Division</a>; former interim<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Attorney</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_Missouri" title="United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Western District of Missouri</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary</a>
110th Congress</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leahy" title="Patrick Leahy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Patrick Leahy</a>, Chair <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">(D)</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter" title="Arlen Specter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Arlen Specter</a>, Ranking member, former Chair <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">(R)</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Chuck Schumer</a>, Chair: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Judiciary_Subcommittee_on_Administrative_Oversight_and_the_Courts" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">(D)</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States House Committee on the Judiciary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary</a>
110th Congress</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Conyers" title="John Conyers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Conyers</a>, Chair <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">(D)</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S.Smith" title="Lamar S. Smith" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lamar Smith</a>, Ranking member <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">(R)</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_S%C3%A1nchez" title="Linda Sánchez" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Linda Sánchez</a>, Chair: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Judiciary_Subcommittee_on_Commercial_and_Administrative_Law" title="United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">(D)</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>After the land swap controversy was revealed, an unnamed official from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="US Department of Justice" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">US Department of Justice</a> cautioned the media not to jump to conclusions regarding the inquiry into Renzi, saying it "is not a well-developed investigation, by any means. A tip comes into the department. The department is obligated to follow up ... and we do that. People are assuming there is evidence of some crime," even though that is not necessarily true. The official added, "Be careful. I can confirm to you a very early investigation. But I want to caution you not to chop this guy's (Renzi's) head off."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-azcentral.com-51" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[51]</a>According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Arizona Republic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Arizona Republic</a>, "The federal official would not discuss whether the Justice Department was being manipulated for political purposes. However, the official said it is unusual for the department to publicly acknowledge concerns about the accuracy of media reports." In the same story, the official said the Justice Department contacted at least two newspapers about "chunks of stuff in their stories that's wrong."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-azcentral.com-51" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[51]</a>Shortly after initiating the investigation of Renzi, the US Attorney for Arizona, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K.Charlton(attorney)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul K. Charlton (attorney)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Paul Charlton</a>, was added to a list of US attorneys the Justice Department wanted to remove, in an effort that would become the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S.attorneys_controversy" title="Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy</a>. In February 2005, Charlton had been on the "retain" list of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Sampson" title="Kyle Sampson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Kyle Sampson</a>, Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alberto Gonzales</a>'s chief of staff, but "by September of 2006 — after it became clear that Charlton had launched an investigation of Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz, — Sampson included the Arizona prosecutor on another list of U.S. attorneys 'we now should consider pushing out.'"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[52]</a> Sampson made the comment in a September 13, 2006, letter to then-White House Counsel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers" title="Harriet Miers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Harriet Miers</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-thenation.com-49" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[49]</a>On March 19, 2007, the White House released 3,000 pages of records connected to the controversy, including emails sent by Charlton to the Justice Department about his dismissal. On December 21, 2006, Charlton sent a message to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mercer" title="Bill Mercer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Mercer</a>, the third-ranking official in the department, writing, "Media now asking if I was asked to resign over leak in Congressman Renzi investigation." Charlton never received a response.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[53]</a>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wall Street Journal</a> explained further allegations: that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Department of Justice</a> intentionally delayed part of the investigation of Renzi until after the November 2006 election. They wrote:<blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The delays, which postponed key approvals in the case until after the election, raise new questions about whether <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Attorney General</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alberto Gonzales</a> or other officials may have weighed political issues in some investigations....Investigators pursuing the Renzi case had been seeking clearance from senior Justice Department officials on search warrants, subpoenas and other legal tools for a year before the election, people close to the case said.......the investigation clearly moved slowly: Federal agents opened the case no later than June 2005, yet key witnesses didn't get subpoenas until early this year, those close to the case said. The first publicly known search — a raid of a Renzi family business by the Federal Bureau of Investigation — was[n't] carried out [until April 2007]....<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-WSJ-20070425-54" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[54]</a></blockquote>Further, the Journal noted that investigators had lobbied Washington for clearance to tap Renzi's phone for months. That clearance was only given in October 2006, but unfortunately for the investigators, word broke of the investigation soon after, disrupting their wiretap.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-WSJ-20070425-54" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[54]</a>On April 24, 2007, Renzi stepped down from the House Financial Services and Natural Resources committees, as more revelations connected him to the U.S. attorneys controversy. During that afternoon,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K.Charlton(attorney)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul K. Charlton (attorney)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Paul Charlton</a>, the US Attorney from Arizona who was one of those fired, related to a House investigators that Brian Murray, Renzi's top aide, called Charlton spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle shortly after news of Renzi's investigation became public, asking for information on the case. Charlton, in turn, notified the Department of Justice about the call. Justice, in turn, had not previously notified Congress of the contact.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[55]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Employment of Patty Roe<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Employment of Patty Roe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In December 2005, Renzi hired Patty Roe, the wife of Jason Roe, the chief of staff of Representative<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Feeney" title="Tom Feeney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tom Feeney</a> (R-FL), as his full-time administrative assistant. In that position, she is paid $95,000 per year. Renzi also pays her $5,000 per month ($60,000 per year) as a fundraising consultant (she ran her own consulting business before being hired by Renzi).To be in compliance with the rules, Roe must be doing all her fundraising work before she clocks in to work as Renzi's administrative assistant, or after she checks out, and she can't make or receive a single fundraising-related call in her House office. Renzi's spokesman Vartan Djihanian said that this is the case: "Whatever fundraising she does," he said, "is on her time."Roe also received about $30,000 in fundraising fees in 2006 from four other House members: Tom Feeney; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Diaz-Balart" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln Diaz-Balart" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lincoln Diaz-Balart</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Diaz-Balart" class="mw-redirect" title="Mario Diaz-Balart" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mario Diaz-Balart</a>, both of Florida; and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Patrick McHenry</a> of North Carolina. Renzi's office said those payments were for services rendered in 2005. There is no evidence that Roe's activities are not in compliance with House ethics standards.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[56]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reported floor fight<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=17&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Reported floor fight" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Renzi was an opponent of embryonic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Stem cell research" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">stem cell research</a>. In May 2005, he engaged in an argument on the House floor with Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kirk" title="Mark Kirk" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mark Kirk</a> (R-IL). The argument ensued after Renzi had learned that Kirk and the moderate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Main_Street_Partnership" title="Republican Main Street Partnership" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Republican Main Street Partnership</a> commissioned secret polling in the districts of Renzi and other members of Congress who oppose stem cell research. Renzi said, "I was yelling at him. I told him it's absolutely unprecedented that Republicans would pay for a push poll to attack another Republican on such a core belief of mine... You're not going to change my view on the issue, as a father of 12."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[5</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">7]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Funds from DeLay's PAC<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=18&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Funds from DeLay's PAC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Renzi also received $30,000 in campaign contributions from former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_Leader_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">House Majority Leader</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tom </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">DeLay</a>'s<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMPAC" class="mw-redirect" title="ARMPAC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ARMPAC</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">58]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb">Indictment and conviction[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi&action=edit&section=19&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Indictment and conviction" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>On February 22, 2008, Congressman Renzi was indicted on multiple federal charges.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[59]</a> The charges included conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering extortion and insurance fraud.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-cnn2-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a> In October 2009, the government added a conspiracy to commit insurance fraud charge to the indictment. It alleged that Renzi and others willfully embezzled from a risk retention company called Spirit Mountain.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[60]</a> In June 2010, a Federal District Judge ruled that procedural errors precluded the prosecution from using available wire-taps as evidence in the case going forward.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[61]</a>Renzi appealed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a>, asking the court to stop his prosecution. A three-judge panel held that Renzi's prosecution could go forward and the full court let pass a petition to rehear that decision <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_banc" title="En banc" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">en banc</a>, allowing the case against Renzi to proceed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[62]</a> Renzi appealed to the Supreme Court but it also declined to hear his appeal so he was put on trial.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[63]</a>On June 12, 2013, a jury convicted Renzi on 17 of 32 counts in his corruption case that accused him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 campaign.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-convicted-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a> That October, Renzi was sentenced to three years in prison.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[64]</a> Renzi appealed his conviction to the Ninth Circuit, but the court upheld the jury's verdict.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[65]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Supreme Court</a> denied <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certiorari" title="Certiorari" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">certiorari</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[66]</a>On February 27, 2015, Renzi reported to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Institution,Morgantown" title="Federal Correctional Institution, Morgantown" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Federal Correctional Institution, Morgantown</a> to serve his 3-year prison sentence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[67]</a> He is Bureau of Prisons inmate 29375-208 and scheduled for release on January 7, 2017.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[68]</a></div><div>
</div><div>===</div><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi</a><div>
</div><div>Richard George Renzi, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party_U.S.A." title="Republican Party U.S.A." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a>, represented the 1st District of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_Arizona" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Arizona</a>, in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States House of Representatives</a> from 2002-2008. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/az01_109.gif" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">map</a>)<table id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; display: inline; background-image: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Record_and_controversies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Record and controversies</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Iraq_War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.1 Iraq War</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Environmental_record" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.2 Environmental record</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Claims_of_Voting_Record_Favoring_his_Family_Business" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.3 Claims of Voting Record Favoring his Family Business</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Financial_controversies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.4 Financial controversies</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#FEC_Violations_and_Improper_Campaign_Contributions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.4.1 FEC Violations and Improper Campaign Contributions</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Failure_to_disclose.24200.2C000" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.4.2 Failure to disclose $200,000</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Second_mortgage_on_Flagstaff_home" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.4.3 Second mortgage on Flagstaff home</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Link_to_ARMPAC_and_Tom_Delay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.5 Link to ARMPAC and Tom Delay</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Payments_to_staffer.2C_lobbyist.2C_and_fundraiser_Patty_Roe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.6 Payments to staffer, lobbyist, and fundraiser Patty Roe</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Justice_Department_investigation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.7 Justice Department investigation</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#2005_land_swap" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.7.1 2005 land swap</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Sponsors_legislation_benefiting_campaign_contributor_and_employer_of_father" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.7.2 Sponsors legislation benefiting campaign contributor and employer of father</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#FBI_raids_family_business" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.7.3 FBI raids family business</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Connection_to_U.S.attorney_firings_controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.7.4 Connection to U.S. attorney firings controversy</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Retirement" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.8 Retirement</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Indictment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.9 Indictment</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Ethics_investigation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.10 Ethics investigation</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Bio" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 Bio</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#2004_elections" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.1 2004 elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#2006_elections" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.2 2006 elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#2008_elections" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.3 2008 elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Positions_and_Views" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.4 Positions and Views</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Money_in_politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Money in politics</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Committees_and_Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 Committees and Affiliations</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Committee_assignments_in_the_110th_Congress.282007-2008.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.1 Committee assignments in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.2 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Coalitions_and_Caucuses" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.3 Coalitions and Caucuses</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Boards_and_other_Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.4 Boards and other Affiliations</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#More_Background_Data" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 More Background Data</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">6 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-32" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7 Articles and resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Sources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7.1 Sources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7.2 Resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7.3 Articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-36" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7.4 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Record and controversies</h2><div style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em; background-color: rgb(220, 232, 248);">General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:U.S.legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">articles on legislation</a>. You can add information you find on how Rick Renzi voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Help:References" title="Help:References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">cite your sources</a>!</div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Iraq War</h3><div style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em; background-color: rgb(220, 232, 248);">For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.House_of_Representatives_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War</a>.</div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environmental record</h3>For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy(U.S.)" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Claims of Voting Record Favoring his Family Business</h3>While in office, Renzi has been criticized for consistently introducing and voting in favor of bills benefiting his father's defense company <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ourcongress.org/race/az01" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a>. In 2003, Renzi sponsored legislation (signed into law in November 2003) that dealt hundreds of millions of dollars to his father's business while, according to environmentalists, devastating the San Pedro River. The provision exempted the Army's Fort Huachuca base in Sierra Vista, Arizona from maintaining water levels in the San Pedro River as called for in an agreement made in 2002 with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" class="extiw" title="w:U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</a>. Renzi claimed he introduced the measure to prevent the closing of the Fort and to promote its enlargement. Neither the fort nor the river is located in Renzi's district.A key beneficiary of Renzi's legislation was ManTech International Corp., a Fairfax, Virginia based defense contractor where Renzi's father, Retired Major General Eugene Renzi, is an executive vice president. ManTech had $467 million in contracts at Fort Huachuca with options for an additional $1.1 billion between 2004 through 2008. In addition, the company, which has an office in Sierra Vista, Arizona, was the largest contributor to Renzi's 2002 congressional campaign and the second largest in his 2004 campaign.On October 24, 2006, the New York Times reported that federal authorities in Arizona had opened an inquiry into possible illegal actions taken by the Congressman in relation to the matter. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/washington/25inquire.html?ref=washington" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Financial controversies</h3><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FEC Violations and Improper Campaign Contributions</h4>In 2004, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federal_Election_Commission" title="Federal Election Commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Federal Election Commission</a> concluded an audit of Rep. Renzi's campaign committee, Rick Renzi for Congress, and found that the committee had illegally financed much of the Congressman's 2002 election campaign. The FEC found that $369,090 of the loans were made using impermissible corporate funds. The committee was fined $25,000 for the reporting violation. The FEC made public in early May 2007 that it reached an agreement with Renzi that would avoid a more serious fine by paying $323,830 in additional federal and state taxes.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Failure to disclose $200,000</h4>On April 26, 2007, The Hill reported that Rep. Renzi had failed to disclose $200,000 in income from James Sandlin. The payment is connected with a land swap currently under investigation, and was omitted from the congressmen's financial disclosure files (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rick_Renzi#Financial_controversies" title="Rick Renzi" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">see above section</a>). <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Second mortgage on Flagstaff home</h4>In order to pay for the FEC tax deal (see above), in January 2007 Renzi took out a $500,000 second mortgage on his home in Flagstaff. The second mortgage indicates possible financial troubles prior to making the FEC deal. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none;">Link to ARMPAC and Tom Delay</h3>Renzi also received $30,000 in campaign contributions from former majority leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tom DeLay</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMPAC" class="extiw" title="w:ARMPAC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ARMPAC</a>. After DeLay was indicted in 2005, Democrats criticized Renzi for not returning the money or donating it to charity. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ourfuture.org/issues_and_campaigns/accountablecongress/delay/money9.cfm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a>.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Payments to staffer, lobbyist, and fundraiser Patty Roe</h3>In order to dodge federal laws barring senior congressional staffers from pursuing outside careers, Renzi hired former consultant Patty Roe at a salary just below that which would categorize her as a senior staffer. He then paid her an additional $5,000 per month to solicit donations for his campaign fund. Federal law stipulates that no campaigning or campaign fundraising can be done from a congressional office. Many close to the matter believe that it is unlikely that Roe has upheld the proper legal separation between her two jobs. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://harpers.org/sb-the-patty-roe-story-1158246131.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[4]</a>Due to the various ethical charges that have been raised by Renzi's opponents, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a>, labeled Renzi one of the most corrupt members of Congress in 2005 and 2006. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.beyonddelay.org/beyond_delay/rep_rick_renzi_r_az" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[5]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Justice_Department" title="Justice Department" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Justice Department</a> investigation</h3><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2005 land swap</h4>In October 2001, Renzi sold off a half-interest of a real estate investment business to a fellow investor, James Sandlin, before filing to run for Congress for the first time in 2002. Sandlin paid $200,000 cash, and Renzi put his profits towards his congressional campaign. Once he won the 2002 election, Renzi sold his remaining interest in the company to Sandlin, earning somewhere between $1 million and $5 million, according to public disclosure forms. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2006-10-12/news/news_2.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[6]</a>In 2000, Sandlin bought 480 acres in Cochise County, Arizona. In 2005, Tom Collazo, director of conservation for the Nature Conservancy in Arizona, says that two different groups of investors approached him about whether Sandlin's property would be useful in a land swap. Sandlin's land was on the San Pedro, a source of great concern for environmentalists because of its status of being the last free-flowing river in Arizona. The Nature Conservancy had previously attempted to purchase the property, but in 2005 both investors who approached Collazo said they were doing so at Renzi's suggestion. While Renzi's district does include parts of Cochise County, Sandlin's land falls outside its borders. Confirming his interest, on October 1, 2005, Renzi said that he would introduce legislation in Congress swapping Sandlin's land, thereby protecting the land along the San Pedro, in exchange for land in Florence, Arizona. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2006-10-12/news/news_2.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[7]</a>On October 7, Sandlin sold the property to Philip Aries, a real estate investor, and his partners for $4.5 million. The group purchased the land in preparation for a swap for the Florence land, where they had plans for development. Soon after, however, the federal government discovered that Florence was full of pygmy owls, an endangered species, and the land therefore could not be developed. Aries and his partners then attempted to place the land they purchased back on the market, as a swap for the Florence land would no longer be a possibility. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2006-10-12/news/news_2.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[8]</a>Renzi's chief of staff, Brian Murray, acknowledged that “it wouldn't be proper for him to be involved in legislation involving Sandlin” because of their past business dealings. Murray told the Phoeniz New Times that Renzi explained to him that Sandlin was part of a group of investors, and that the congressman was unaware that his former partner had interest in the land. Renzi, however, later called New Times and said that he knew Sandlin had ownership of the property, but that his only interest in advocating a swap was helping the San Pedro, especially because the fate of Fort Huachuca rested on having enough water. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2006-10-12/news/news_2.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[9]</a>On October 24, a law enforcement official in Washington D.C. anonymously reported that Renzi was under investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Arizona for his involvement in a land deal. While the report did not specify this land deal as the one being probed, the Associated Press indicated it was likely. The official noted that the investigation had been under way for several months, and was still in its early stages. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1024renzi24-ON.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[10]</a><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sponsors legislation benefiting campaign contributor and employer of father</h4>Within twenty-four hours of the Associated Press report involving the investigation of Renzi and the land swap, it was also reported that federal authorities in Arizona had opened an inquiry into whether Renzi introduced legislation that benefited a military contractor who donated heavily to his campaigns and employs his father. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/washington/25inquire.html?r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1161785315-1g9fQ4bxSb4roYJ+137cqw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[11]</a>In 2003, Renzi sponsored legislation (which was signed into law in November of that year) exempting the Fort Huachuca Army base in Arizona from maintaining water levels in the nearby San Pedro River. Environmentalists criticized the measure, arguing that it threatened water levels in one of the few remaining un-dammed rivers in the West. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/washington/25inquire.html?r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1161785315-1g9fQ4bxSb4roYJ+137cqw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[12]</a>The legislation benefited firms which operated at the base. One of these firms, ManTech International, a communications company which at the time of the probe had over $450 million in military contracts at the base, was the largest contributor to Renzi’s congressional campaign in 2002 and the second-largest in 2004. In addition, the firm employs Renzi’s father, Eugene, a retired Army general, as its executive vice-president. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/washington/25inquire.html?r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1161785315-1g9fQ4bxSb4roYJ+137cqw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[13]</a>As of late October 2006, the inquiry was at an early stage and no search warrants had been issued. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/washington/25inquire.html?r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1161785315-1g9fQ4bxSb4roYJ+137cqw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[14]</a><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FBI raids family business</h4>On April 19, 2007, the FBI raided Renzi's wife's Arizona insurance business. This prompted Renzi to temporarily resign from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Intelligence_Committee" title="House Intelligence Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Intelligence Committee</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a>That same day <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Ethics_Committee" title="House Ethics Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Ethics Committee</a> aides pulled Renzi's financial disclosure records, signaling a possible probe. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a>On April 24, 2007, Renzi announced that he would be stepping down from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Natural_Resources" title="House Committee on Natural Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Resources</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="House Committee on Financial Services" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Financial Services</a> Committees. Minority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Boehner</a> (R-Ohio) stated, "I appreciate the decision Rick has made and know it was a difficult one...I look forward to seeing this matter resolved swiftly." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Connection to U.S. attorney firings controversy</h4>In late 2006, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Justice_Department" title="Justice Department" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Justice Department</a> fired nine U.S. attorneys. A controversy ensued as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other members of the department provided inconsistent statements regarding the reasons for the unusual mid-term firings. In addition, it became apparent from department communications that the firings were politically motivated.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_U.S.attorney_firings_controversy" title="Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy</a></dd></dl>In April 2007, Brian Murray, Renzi's top congressional aide, issued a statement acknowledging that shortly after the local media reported the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Justice_Department" title="Justice Department" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Justice Department</a>investigation in late 2006, he called Wyn Hornbuckle, a spokesperson for Paul Charlton, then a U.S. attorney from Arizona and one of nine who would ultimately be fired. He stated, "I called Mr. Hornbuckle seeking information about press accounts which appeared just weeks before Election Day alleging a pending indictment...I left him a message asking for information about these allegations, but I was called back and told they would not comment."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a> The Justice Department investigation into Renzi, which was announced in October 2006, a week before the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2006_congressional_elections" title="2006 congressional elections" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2006 congressional elections</a>, was conducted by Charlton. The investigation was ongoing at the time of Charlton's firing.Murray disclosed the call a few hours after Charlton related the call to House investigators probing whether the U.S. attorney firings were politically motivated. The Justice Department denied that Charlton's, or any of the attorneys, firing was political.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Retirement</h3>On April 26 2007, the Business Journal of Phoenix reported that Rep. Renzi was being encouraged by Republican leadership to resign from his office. Republican leadership is worried that prolonged investigations into Renzi's activities, will damage their ability to maintain the seat.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a>On April 27 2007, Rep. Renzi stated that he would not resign and that he is "looking forward to continuing to serve the people of the 1st district for the next two years."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a>On August 24, 2007, Rep. Renzi's office announced that he would not seek reelection in 2008, and would retire following the 110th Congress. He stated, “I will not be seeking re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008. I am honored and thankful to serve Arizona’s first district and appreciate all that we have accomplished together over the past 6 years.” In the face of a federal investigation into Renzi's business dealings, numerous Democrats already had entered the 2008 race, with some Republicans also eying to fight for the seat in the primary. Renzi's retirement would mean a Republican candidate untainted by political scandal could vie for the spot.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Indictment</h3>According to a February 2008 AP report, Renzi has been indicted on extortion, money laundering, wire fraud and other charges connected to land deals in his state.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> Renzi, who announced last year he would not seek reelection, has been under investigation for using his position on the House Natural Resources Committee to profit from a 2005 land swap deal. On February 26, 2008, Renzi's congressional office released a statement where Renzi announced his intent to stay in office despite the indictments: "I will not resign and take on the cloak of guilt because I am innocent."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a>In October 2008, citing the "speech and debate clause," his attorneys filed a motion to throw out the case, while prosecutors filed an opposing motion; however, the judge has not yet decided.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a>Renzi faced more indictment counts on November 13, 2008, charged with racketeering, falsifying a tax return, and embezzlement. He is named in 43 out of 44 charges.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ethics investigation</h3>A week after federal prosecutors indicted Renzi on 35 counts of extortion, money laundering and conspiracy, the House Ethics Committee voted to empanel an investigative subcommittee to review whether the congressman violated the chamber’s code of conduct. The ethics committee investigation will be chaired by Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lucille_Roybal-Allard" title="Lucille Roybal-Allard" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lucille Roybal-Allard</a> (D-Calif.). However, the ethics committee's recent history leaves questions as to its efficacy. It authorized a probe of Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Jefferson" title="William Jefferson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William Jefferson</a> (D-La.) in 2006 but has yet to issue public word on the progress of that effort.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-abcnews-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a>On February 27, due to a lack of support among lawmakers, the House set aside indefinitely a new effort to create a more rigorous, independent ethics body to enforce rules of conduct for House members.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Renzi#cite_note-abcnews-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a>
<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bio</h2>Renzi was born on June 11, 1959 and grew up in Sierra Vista, Arizona, where his father, retired U.S. Army Major General Eugene Renzi (a two-star general), served at Ft. Huachuca. Renzi graduated from Buena High School and was educated at Northern Arizona University with a B.S. in criminal justice in 1980, and the Catholic University with a J.D. in 2002. Before entering politics he was an insurance businessman and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Defense" class="extiw" title="w:U.S. Department of Defense" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Department of Defense</a> employee in the Washington, D.C. area.Renzi's father is the executive vice president of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mantech_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mantech International (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mantech International</a>, a company providing information technology services to a number of intelligence and defense-related federal government agencies; over 1/3 of Mantech International's employees have top secret government security clearances. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.spirithelps.com/other_groups.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[15]</a>Rick and Roberta Renzi are the parents of 12 children.When a new congressional district was created in Arizona, Renzi bought a house in Flagstaff, Arizona so he could claim Arizona residency and run for the seat. At this time, Renzi had lived in Virginia for over 20 years since graduating from Northern Arizona University. In 2003 after Renzi was elected to Congress, the bank foreclosed on the home after Renzi missed a series of mortgage payments. During the entire period, Renzi's actual residence continued in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11081956&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[16]</a>Renzi faced a hotly contested Republican primary election which included several other candidates. He was denounced as a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carpetbagger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carpetbagger (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">carpetbagger</a> by some activists within his own party, but nonetheless won the nomination. The 2002 Democratic primary, also hotly contested, was narrowly won by George Cordova, a party outsider and also accused carpetbagger who won over several better-known candidates supported by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic National Committee</a>.Renzi spent $436,590 of his own money on the election, in addition to large donations from Mantech International executives, who were the largest single source of outside money for the campaign. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.asp?ID=AZ01&cycle=2002&special=N" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[17]</a>The Renzi campaign was criticized for the heavy use of negative advertising attacking Cordova, which the cash-strapped Cordova campaign was unable to match. The Renzi campaign also made heavy use of automated telephone calls throughout the district with various claims and innuendos about Cordova. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5717182&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[18]</a>Renzi claimed most of the negative advertising had been placed by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican National Committee</a> without his permission. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=52671" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[19]</a>On election day, Rick Renzi defeated George Cordova by a 49%-46% margin, a difference of about 6,000 votes.<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2004 elections</h4>In preparation for the 2004 campaign, the Democratic Party in Arizona tapped <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Babbitt" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Babbitt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Paul Babbitt</a>, Coconino County commissioner and the brother of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bruce_Babbitt" title="Bruce Babbitt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bruce Babbitt</a> to run for the seat, and pressured all other candidates with the exception of political unknown Bob Donahue out of the primary in order to clear the way for Babbitt to run against Renzi without a costly primary contest. Paul Babbitt's campaign was named a top national priority by most major Democratic fundraisers and liberal weblogs, because a plurality of Arizona 1st Congressional District voters are registered Democrats and because Renzi was able to defeat George Cordova by only about 6000 votes in 2002. Unlike the Cordova campaign of two years prior, which received only token support from the national Democratic Party organizations, the Babbitt campaign received major support; nonetheless, the Babbitt campaign was unable to match Renzi's fundraising. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.asp?id=AZ01&cycle=2004" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[20]</a>The Renzi campaign once again flooded the district with negative advertising attacking Babbitt. On election day, Renzi was reelected by a 59%-36% margin. Pundits noted a number of reasons why Babbitt performed so poorly in a plurality Democratic district. Among them were the unpopularity of the Babbitt name in some parts of the district, resentment over pressure tactics used by the state Democratic Party to pressure other candidates out of the primary, and Renzi's record of securing congressional appropriations for the district especially on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation" class="extiw" title="w:Navajo Nation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Navajo Nation</a>. However, the most common complaint was simply that Babbitt ran a poor campaign and was unwilling to commit to a firm position on much of anything.<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2006 elections</h4>In 2006, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democrats</a> nominated <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ellen_Simon" title="Ellen Simon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ellen Simon</a> to face Renzi in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. congressional elections in 2006</a>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=AZ&year=2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[21]</a> Renzi won the closely watched race.<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2008 elections</h4>On August 23rd, 2007, Renzi announced that he would not be running for reelection in 2008. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/19759-1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[22]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ann_Kirkpatrick" title="Ann Kirkpatrick" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ann Kirkpatrick</a> will replace Renzi as Congresswoman of the 1st District in January.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Positions and Views</h3>In 2004, Renzi was one of a handful of members in the House to vote in favor of an amendment to pull the United States out of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Nations" title="United Nations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United Nations</a>.Renzi is an opponent of stem cell research and in May of 2005, he got into an argument on the House floor with Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Kirk" title="Mark Kirk" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mark Kirk</a> (R-IL) which was initially reported as Renzi choking Kirk until the argument was broken up by Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/J.D.Hayworth" title="J.D. Hayworth" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">J.D. Hayworth</a> (R-AZ), although the offices of all three Congressmen deny this. The argument ensued after Renzi had learned that Kirk and the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership commissioned secret polling in the districts of Renzi and other members of Congress who oppose stem cell research. Renzi claims that he was only yelling at Kirk: "I was yelling at him. I told him it's absolutely unprecedented that Republicans would pay for a push poll to attack another Republican on such a core belief of mine...You're not going to change my view on the issue, as a father of 12." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://searclub.com/?page=news-article&id=1763" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[23]</a>Renzi is generally a supporter of expanded legal immigration into the United States, and supports expansion of guest worker programs and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1B" class="extiw" title="w:H1B" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">H1B</a> visa.During debates with his <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Libertarian</a> opponents for the U.S. House in 2004, Renzi attacked the environmental movement, naming in particular those who oppose logging as a forest thinning measure and those who support the removal of Glen Canyon Dam.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Money in politics</h2>This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. <crpcontribdata>cid=N00024931&cycle=2006</crpcontribdata><table class="prettytable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Links to more campaign contribution information for Rick Renzi
from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Fundraising profile:</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00024931" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); 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<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Committees and Affiliations</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Committee assignments in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)</h3><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="House Committee on Financial Services" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Financial Services</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Natural_Resources" title="House Committee on Natural Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Natural Resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public lands</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</h3><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="House Committee on Financial Services" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Financial Services</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Capital Markets Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Oversight</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terrorism" title="Terrorism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Terrorism</a>/<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HUMINT" title="HUMINT" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">HUMINT</a> Analysis and Counterintelligence</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Resources" title="House Committee on Resources" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; 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background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Boards and other Affiliations</h3><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More Background Data</h2><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=MAZ21558" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); 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