News Releases | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN WRONG; SENATOR MUST REPORT GAMBLING WINNINGS

pbjork — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:15:11 -0500

10 Oct 2008 // Washington, DC- Yesterday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed an ethics complaint against Sen. John McCain for his failure to disclose gambling winnings on his personal financial disclosure forms. More»

CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST MCCAIN

pbjork — Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:31:25 -0500

9 Oct 2008 // Washington, DC - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate whether Senator John McCain (R-AZ) violated federal law and Senate rules by failing to disclose gambling winnings on his Senate financial disclosure reports.

CREW RENEWS REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION INTO REP. WILSON

pbjork — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:00:39 -0500

7 Oct 2008 // Washington, DC- Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate whether Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) violated House rules by improperly contacting a sitting U.S. Attorney.

JUDGE'S RULING CLEARS WAY FOR ADDINGTON DEPOSITION

naomi — Sun, 5 Oct 2008 18:38:43 -0500

5 Oct 2008 // On Sunday, October 5, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a memorandum opinion denying the defendants' motion for a stay of discovery in CREW, et al. v. Cheney, et al. pending the D.C. Circuit's ruling on defendants' petition for a writ of mandamus. By their mandamus request the White House defendants have asked the D.C. More»

CHENEY PETITIONS COURT TO BLOCK ADDINGTON DEPOSITION

blaire — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:25:15 -0500

1 Oct 2008 // Washington, D.C. - On the eve of the first scheduled deposition in CREW, et al. v. Cheney, et al., Vice President Cheney and the other defendants filed an emergency petition for a writ of mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, and was filed here in an attempt to make the D.C. More»

CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST SEN. KIT BOND FOR ROLE IN FIRING OF FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY TODD GRAVES

pbjork — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:13:30 -0500

30 Sep 2008 // Washington, D.C. - Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (“CREW”) filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-MO) for his role in removing Todd Graves, the former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, from his position.

CREW CRITICIZES “TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE” DOJ IG REPORT ON U.S. ATTORNEY FIRINGS SCANDAL

blaire — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:03:09 -0500

29 Sep 2008 // Washington, DC – Today, in light of the new Department of Justice Inspector General Report “An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), released the following statement:

CREW TO DEPOSE CHENEY CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID ADDINGTON

blaire — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:04:26 -0500

24 Sep 2008 // Washington, DC – Yesterday, in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), et al. v. Cheney, et al., the court granted CREW’s request to take the depositions of David Addington, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, and Nancy Smith, the National Archives and Records Administration official responsible for presidential papers under the Presidential Records Act.

JUDGE ISSUES ORDER DIRECTING CHENEY AND CREW TO CONFER ON DISCOVERY IN RECORDS LAWSUIT

blaire — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:11:46 -0500

22 Sep 2008 // Washington, DC – Today in CREW v. Cheney, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an order directing the parties to confer on the need for discovery before briefing on the merits. This order follows her ruling on Saturday ordering the vice president and the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to preserve all records, widely defined, as the law requires.

Cheney Is Told to Keep Official Records

blaire — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:19:58 -0500

21 Sep 2008 // Christopher Lee // The Washington Post //
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction yesterday ordering Vice President Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all of his official records.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's order came in response to a lawsuit filed this month by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group, joined by several historians and open-government advocates, warned that Cheney might destroy or withhold important documents as the Bush administration winds down if he interprets the Presidential Records Act of 1978 as applying to only some of his official papers. More»