{"id":592,"date":"2016-12-09T20:31:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/?p=592"},"modified":"2019-03-30T00:33:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:33:30","slug":"sessions-first-move-at-doj-should-be-to-clear-rep-rick-renzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/2016\/12\/09\/sessions-first-move-at-doj-should-be-to-clear-rep-rick-renzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sessions\u2019 First Move at DOJ Should Be to Clear Rep. Rick Renzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-img-wrp\">\n<div class=\"content-img\">Once Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions\u00a0is confirmed as attorney general, he must work with Congress to clean up the corruption within the Department of Justice. One of the first cases he should review is the prosecution of former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi. As a former assistant attorney general for the state of Arizona and a former prosecutor with the Maricopa County Attorney&#8217;s Office, I have never seen a more egregious political prosecution as well as corrupt electioneering by a foreign interest than the DOJ\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2016\/11\/29\/new-ag-sessions-and-congress-must-investigate-doj-corruption-in-the-case-of-rep-rick-renzi-n2251888\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/a>crusade against Renzi.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-with-sidebar-wrp\">\n<div class=\"content-wrp\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read more of this\u00a0story at <em>The Hill<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/the-administration\/309672-sessions-first-move-at-doj-should-be-to-clear-rep-rick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/the-administration\/309672-sessions-first-move-at-doj-should-be-to-clear-rep-rick<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-img-wrp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-with-sidebar-wrp\">\n<div class=\"content-wrp\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions\u00a0is confirmed as attorney general, he must work with Congress to clean up the corruption within the Department of Justice. One of the first cases he should review is the prosecution of former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi. As a former assistant attorney general for the state of Arizona and a former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}