Previous Target of DOJ’s Trump Legal Hit Squad Details Illegal Wiretaps, ‘Misconduct’
By Catherine Salgado
Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team have come under fire for apparently attempting to violate attorney-client privilege for Donald Trump in what one former Trump attorney argued is prosecutorial misconduct. But Smith and his prosecutorial team were previously sanctioned in the case of former Rep. Rick Renzi, who revealed details of the numerous illegal wiretaps of his attorney by the prosecutorial team Smith oversaw in exclusive comments to PJ Media.
Renzi was convicted on bribery and extortion charges, to which he pleaded “not guilty” and was later given a full presidential pardon by Trump. While a 2019 complaint and request for investigation filed on Renzi’s behalf by respected legal firm Mayer Brown provided evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, current Trump prosecutors Jack Smith and David Harbach were more directly implicated in the misconduct than previously revealed.
“The prosecutorial misconduct of Jack Smith and his lead prosecutor in my case, David Harbach, is what led to the presidential pardon” Trump gave him, the former congressman told me in his exclusive comments. He explained how Smith and Harbach “tainted” his jury pool while working to exclude pro-life jurors since Renzi is a pro-life father of twelve.
Smith et al., were sanctioned three times, Renzi said. “The first is, they illegally wiretapped my attorney 41 times, they lied to the court that they did that, and they did it in order to try and pierce the attorney-client privilege using the crime-fraud exception, the same thing that they’re us[ing] now on President Trump.”