I guess Alberto firing the U.S. Attorney, Paul Charlton, couldn’t even help Renzi, huh?
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The federal investigation of Renzi figured in the uproar over the Justice Department’s firing of U.S. attorneys allegedly for political reasons. The Post reported last April that Renzi’s top aide had called the office of Arizona’s U.S. attorney about six weeks before the prosecutor was fired, inquiring about the probe into the congressman’s role in the land deal. The U.S. attorney at the time, Paul K. Charlton, alerted Justice officials about the call. Charlton was the third of nine U.S. attorneys forced to resign in 2006 who had reported to Justice officials that Republican members of Congress or their staffs made inappropriate overtures to their offices about politically sensitive investigations they were supervising.