In case you haven't been following the story about Representative Rick Renzi (Republican - Arizona) you should know that he has chosen not to resign while he fights the indictment for fraud, money laundering and extortion.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/renzi-says-he-wont-resign/
Oh and this guy is John McCain's Arizona state election committee co-chair.
Oh and the original Justice Department prosecutor who initiated the investigation of Renzi was one of the 8 prosecutors who were fired last year by Alberto Gonzalez and the Bush administration for political reasons. What a coincidence!
Here's an article about what Renzi actually did: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/washington/23renzi.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=renzi&st=nyt&oref=slogin
To try to summarize: he promised to support federal legislation allowing a land swap between his constiuents and the federal government. Sounds fine, except the condition of his support was that the constituents had to buy land from a secret partner of Renzi's who then funneled the money from those land sales back to Renzi.
In a prior scam, he "embezzled funds from his own insurance company's trust funds in order to finance his first Congressional campaign."
Our U.S. Congress!
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