Rene Sanchez is a saint! Except for that indictment thingie...
VOLUME 12, Page 65-66
C. Sanchez - Cross by Ms. Stillinger
Q. Okay. Do you recall getting a memo in July of this year --
13 I'm sorry, of last year -- pertaining to Mr. Sanchez?
14 MS. KANOF: Objection, Your Honor. Approach the
15 bench?
16 THE COURT: All right.
17 (Bench conference:)
18 MS. KANOF: You haven't made a ruling, Judge, on the
19 admissibility of the Nolan Blanchette memo. That's what she's
20 going into, that Nolan Blanchette told his supervisors that
21 Rene Sanchez had information about horse trailers being used to
22 traffic.
23 MS. STILLINGER: I don't think you have made a ruling
24 because there hasn't been an objection before the Court yet.
25 THE COURT: I understand. You did provide me with
1 the -- the memo. I have reviewed it.
2 And where are you going with all of this? What's the
3 relevance?
4 MS. STILLINGER: He just said -- I think Rene
5 Sanchez's credibility is relevant. I think his evaluation --
6 THE COURT: How are you impeaching his credibility
7 with that?
8 MS. STILLINGER: Well, Ms. Kanof had him testify a lot
9 about who he believed and who he didn't believe and the steps
10 he took in his investigation, based on what he believed and
11 what he didn't believe. This guy gets a memo in July, where
12 somebody is saying -- not terrible, but saying, I have concerns
13 about Rene Sanchez. And it's not terrible, but he seems
14 unusually well informed.
15 This witness does -- instead of investigating it, he
16 turns the memo over to Rene Sanchez, so Rene Sanchez can call
17 Blanchette and say, Why are you writing these things about me?
18 It's not normal behavior.
19 It's not normal behavior, I don't think, for an OIG
20 agent to turn over an investigatory memo within hours of having
21 received it, turn it over to the subject of the memo. And I
22 think that shows his bias in this investigation.
23 THE COURT: I guess my concern is, this guy has
24 already been indicted, has he not?
25 MS. STILLINGER: Right. ...