Press Release by Cory Legal Defense - October 26, 2006Please deliver to NEWS EDITOR / DIRECTOR (one-page fax) CORY LEGAL DEFENSE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mike McGarry Group to Raise Money for ICE Agent VoorhisWants alien plea bargains investigatedOctober 26, 2006 (LAKEWOOD, CO) - An independent group of citizens has formed an ad hoc committee to raise money to help pay the legal costs of Cory Voorhis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who is said to be a focus of an investigation over the possible misuse of information gained from a restricted federal crime database. The group is also asking for an independent investigation into the practice of districts attorney offering criminal aliens reduced charges on serious crimes. On Tuesday the Denver Post reported Voorhis has hired former U.S. attorney William Taylor to represent him. Cory Legal Defense (CLD) committee chairman, Mike McGarry, said "All we want to see is that this military veteran and exemplary federal agent be adequately and fairly represented. With a wife and two small children to support, Cory needs all the help he can get." McGarry emphasized that CLD is an independent group not formally associated with Voorhis, attorney Taylor or Taylor's law firm, Holland and Hart. McGarry said his committee is appealing to investigative reporters to dig deep into the details of each of the apparently hundreds of cases where districts attorney in Colorado offered foreign nationals, including illegal aliens, the "relatively innocuous" plea option of "agricultural trespass" to otherwise serious criminal charges, thus avoiding possible deportation proceedings for the aliens. "From the federal level down through the state level we have a two-tiered system of justice, one that is deferential to criminal aliens while holding citizens more accountable," McGarry said. ### |