Culture of Corruption: Obama U.S. Attorney nominee clams up
Two weeks ago, I pointed you to the festering corruption scandal involving President Obama’s US Attorney nominee in Colorado, Stephanie Villafuerte.
Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver ICE agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal charges. He’s trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying.
Villafuerte served on Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter’s campaign team while on leave from the Denver D.A.’s office and from all local news accounts was deeply involved in the witchhunt against agent Voorhis.
But she refuses to answer any questions about her role in the case.
And now she is poised to take over as US Attorney.
Transparency? Ethics? Accountability? Anyone?
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Read the whole thing. The rotten mess that is the Obama administration just keeps getting smellier and smellier.
