{"id":888,"date":"2019-08-20T14:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/?p=888"},"modified":"2019-10-23T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:09:31","slug":"lawyer-for-convicted-ex-congressman-alleges-improper-conduct-in-doj-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/2019\/08\/20\/lawyer-for-convicted-ex-congressman-alleges-improper-conduct-in-doj-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged DOJ misconduct in the case of former Congressman Rick Renzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-11-at-8.55.31-AM-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-11-at-8.55.31-AM-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-11-at-8.55.31-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-11-at-8.55.31-AM.png 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><u>From the article by Jacqueline Thomsen (thehill.com)<\/u><\/strong> &#8220;&#8230;An attorney for Renzi, Kelly Kramer, alleged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/405810017\/DOJ-Complaint-Letter?secret_password=7DbjmgRcz4nzkcggcXpn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">letter<\/a><span class=\"\">\u00a0sent to the DOJ on Wednesday and obtained by The Hill that improper conduct on the part of the Justice Department led to an unfair investigation and prosecution of the former congressman. &#8216;<\/span><span class=\"\">In my view, the government\u2019s misconduct not only deprived Mr. Renzi of his constitutional right to a fair trial, but it allowed the jury to convict an innocent man,&#8217; Kramer wrote.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article by Jacqueline Thomsen (thehill.com) &#8220;&#8230;An attorney for Renzi, Kelly Kramer, alleged in a letter\u00a0sent to the DOJ on Wednesday and obtained by The Hill that improper conduct on the part of the Justice Department led to an unfair investigation and prosecution of the former congressman. &#8216;In my view, the government\u2019s misconduct not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":889,"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":[30,42,28,26,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}