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New Mexico Political Report
November 1, 2017
The U.S. Attorney's position in New Mexico became controversial in 2006 when David Iglesias was fired by President George W. Bush. Republican officials, including then-Republican Party of New Mexico chairman Allen Weh, then-U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and then-U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, allegedlyÃâà...
Las Cruces Sun-News
September 17, 2017
In 2008, the Senate Ethics Committee found no evidence that he attempted to improperly influence a federal investigation but admonished him for creating an appearance of impropriety by calling then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias about the case. Iglesias had alleged Domenici pressured him to speedÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
September 13, 2017
Late in his career, Domenici was linked to the ouster of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, one of nine federal prosecutors fired in a series of politically tinged dismissals in 2006. The Senate Ethics Committee found Domenici created an appearance of impropriety when he called Iglesias to inquire about theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
September 13, 2017
Late in his career, Domenici was linked to the ouster of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, one of nine federal prosecutors fired in a series of politically tinged dismissals in 2006. The Senate Ethics Committee found Domenici created an appearance of impropriety when he called Iglesias to inquire about theÃâà...
Slate Magazine
July 27, 2017
A special prosecutor was ultimately appointed to investigate the Iglesias firing and eventually concluded that there was insufficient evidence that any Bush administration official had pressured the New Mexico U.S. attorney. But all along, the Justice Department proceeded on the assumption thatÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2017
We learned that the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, David Iglesias, was fired soon after receiving an improper call from Republican Sen. Pete Domenici pushing him to bring political corruption cases before the election. We learned that Justice Department officials in Washington had improperly applied aÃâà...
New Mexico Political Report
May 8, 2017
Pete Domenici made phone calls to former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias about his investigation into former state Senate President Pro Tem Manny Aragon. Iglesias later said Wilson and Domenici pressured him to indict Aragon. U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, who faced Wilson in an famously brutalÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
April 2, 2017
David Iglesias didn't pay much attention to the first note. The lifelong Republican was a respected former Navy judge advocate; he was one of the defense attorneys in the court-martial case that inspired A Few Good Men. He had been the U.S. attorney in New Mexico for a year and had not encountered anyÃâà...
New Mexico Political Report
March 30, 2017
That year, Wilson contacted former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias and reportedly pressured him to talk about sealed indictments of an investigation into alleged voting fraud in New Mexico. Iglesias, who was one of several U.S. Attorneys soon fired that year by the Bush administration, wrote that he took theÃâà...
Newsweek
March 20, 2017
At the other end of that spectrum, consider a former U.S. attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias. In 2005, a Republican senator from that state, Pete Domenici, wanted Iglesias to initiate prosecutions against certain Democrats. When Iglesias declined because the cases lacked merit, Domenici voiced hisÃâà...
New York Times
January 27, 2017
In a highly unusual move, seven United States attorneys were forced to resign, on top of two more pushed out earlier. David Iglesias, a conservative Republican, was the United States attorney in New Mexico. Local Republicans became angry that he refused to bring corruption cases against Democrats.
Los Angeles Times
October 1, 2008
Vindication for fired U.S. attorney ... If a U.S. attorney must maintain the confidence of home-state political officials to avoid removal, regardless of the merits of the U.S. attorney's prosecutorial decisions, respect for the ... David Iglesias was the U.S. attorney for the district of New Mexico from 2001 and 2007.
New York Times
March 20, 2007
Albuquerque. WITH this week's release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters. Of course, as one of the eight, I've felt this way for some time. But now that the record is out there in blackÃâà...
New York Times
November 6, 2004
Albuquerque. WITH this week's release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters. Of course, as one of the eight, I've felt this way for some time. But now that the record is out there in blackÃâà...
