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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Republican Congressman Indicted in Land Swap Scam

David Stout and Paul Giblin, The New York Times, report: "Representative Rick Renzi, a Republican who represents a vast region of Arizona, has been indicted on charges of using his office to enrich himself through a complex land swap scam, federal prosecutors announced on Friday in Phoenix."
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Lara Jakes Jordan, The Associated Press, says, "A multibillion-dollar loophole slipped into a proposed crackdown on contract fraud has drawn the ire of a key Republican senator and the government's top watchdog of US spending in Iraq."

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