Rick Renzi: FBI Wiretaps, Extortion Charges, and a Presidential Pardon
Rick Renzi was a sitting Republican congressman from Arizona and a father of 12 when a reporter called during his reelection campaign to ask about a grand jury investigating him. He had no idea one existed.
Years later, going through discovery, he noticed blacked-out entries in the government’s call logs and realized FBI agents had been listening to his calls with his lawyers. The prosecutor was Jack Smith, years before he became special counsel. A judge threw out the wiretap but kept the charges. Word of his first indictment leaked while he was giving the eulogy at his father’s funeral. Each…
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