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  • Fired U.S. attorney says he felt 'leaned on' in Democratic corruption case

    03/06/2007 9:31:34 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 42 replies · 1,877+ views
    ap on San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 3/6/07 | Jennifer Talhelm - ap
    WASHINGTON – A fired federal prosecutor told a Senate committee Tuesday that he felt “leaned on” and sickened as Republican Sen. Pete Domenici hung up on him in disgust last fall when told that indictments in a corruption case against Democrats would not be issued before the fall elections. “He said, 'Are these going to be filed before November?'” former federal prosecutor David Iglesias, one of eight U.S. attorneys summarily fired in recent months, told the panel. “I said I didn't think so. And to which he replied, 'I'm very sorry to hear that.' And then the line went dead.”...