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Cory Legal Defense - Timeline

• 09/27/2006 - 09/28/2006 ICE Agent Cory Voorhis queries Walter RAMO aka: ESTRADA-Medina in NCIC/CCIC (for law enforcement purposes).
• 10/04/2006 9:32 am Investigator with the Harris County TX DA's office makes an "inquiry" through NCIC into the Walter RAMO criminal history. It is subsequently determined the Harris County Investigator is affiliated with a private investigator contracted/employed by the Colorado Republican Party and/or the Beauprez Campaign. (Political Purposes).
• 10/10/2006 Evening Beauprez Campaign begins airing Walter RAMO "attack ad" referencing Denver plea to Agriculture Trespass.
• 10/12/2006 3:46 pm A Denver District Attorney employee accessed CCIC/NCIC and inquired into the Walter RAMO aka: Estrada-Medina criminal history for "Informational Purposes".
• 10/12/2006 Ritter's Campaign Counsel contacts CBI by telephone and requests CBI conduct an investigation into an alleged misuse of NCIC by the Beauprez Campaign.
• 10/13/2006 Ritter's Campaign Counsel writes a letter to CBI formally requesting an investigation be conducted into alleged misuse of CCIC/NCIC by Beauprez Campaign. He cites two news reporters and the Ritter Campaign efforts to verify information through public sources without success, as reasons for requesting the investigation.
• 10/13/2006 Evening Bill Ritter publicly calls for a CBI investigation into an alleged misuse of CCIC/NCIC by the Beauprez campaign.
• 10/19/06 - 10/20/2006 Voorhis identified in media as a "suspect" in unauthorized access of CCIC/NCIC probe. Media quotes identity confirmed through several anonymous high-level law enforcement sources
• 10/20/2006 Ritter's Campaign Counsel writes a second letter to CBI outlining "concerns" about the Beauprez Campaign's television ad entitled "Didn't Stand Up" that first aired on public television on 09/29/2006. Campaign Counsel identifies a Ritter Campaign Staff Member who made "inquiries" related to the Beauprez ads.
• 10/24/2006 FBI and CBI interviews Bill Ritter. The Ritter Staff Member is also present during all phases of questioning. Ritter identifies the Staff Member as the person who "determined that the only way to tie Estrada-Medina and Ramo together was through an NCIC check".
• 04/16/2007 CBI "spoke to" the DA employee who ran the NCIC query. The DA Employee explained when the (political) advertisement aired regarding the Denver District Attorney's Office plea bargains a senior DA requested he/she to run Walter Noel Ramo on CCIC/NCIC to review the record. The DA Employee reported it was confirmed by the senior DA that the criminal history record for Walter RAMO, aka: Carlos Estrada-Medina was not available on the CCIC criminal history record and that the NCIC system had to have been accessed in order to obtain this information. The DA Employee printed the NCIC information for the senior DA to be reviewed for 'informational purposes' for the 'current District Attorney' (Mitch Morrissey).
• 04/25/2007 CBI reports that "Possible" interviews with the Harris County Private Investigator and the Harris County DA Investigator running the NCIC check on Walter RAMO, are "pending".
• 04/25/2007 The CBI report makes no mention of interviews conducted with the Denver senior Deputy DA, the Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, or other witnesses. Ritter and members of his staff were never interviewed regarding a possible connection to the NCIC query made by the Denver DA employee.
• 04/25/2007 Bill Ritter named as a "Victim" in CBI summary report documenting case against Voorhis.
• 10/25/07 Cory Voorhis was officially charged by "information" with 3 misdemeanor counts of violating 18 USC 1030, intentionally exceeding authorized access to a computer and obtaining information from an agency of the U.S. On the same day ICE suspended Cory with pay, and on 11/07/07 ICE ordered that his security clearance be suspended and that he be placed on administrative leave without pay.
• 11/20/2007 Cory Voorhis advisal and arraignment hearing before the US District Court - Magistrate Judge. Voorhis entered a not guilty plea. The case was remanded up to US Distrct Court.