10 Colorado Republicans seek federal investigation of U.S. attorney nominee

By Karen Crummy, The Denver Post, November 6, 2009

Colorado state Sen. Ted Harvey of Highlands Ranch, joined by nine of his Republican colleagues, sent a letter Thursday to members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee asking for an investigation into Colorado U.S. attorney nominee Stephanie Villafuerte's role in accessing a restricted federal database while working on Bill Ritter's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

Villafuerte, currently Ritter's deputy chief of staff, has refused to answer questions for two years from The Denver Post about what types of conversations she had with representatives from the Denver district attorney's office in the days before and after a restricted federal database was accessed. Ritter said this week that Villafuerte now cannot answer questions because the White House has asked her not to during the nomination process.

The Post reported two weeks ago that statements by Villafuerte and other DA representatives — as described by an agent in recently obtained FBI interview summaries — do not always comport with available records, and the summaries portray the witnesses offering conflicting explanations on some key points.

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