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24. Lam had a few irons in the fire before she was fired

From a notes file I started back in the day...

Investigations impacted:
Cunningham conspiracy Lam) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801263.html
Cunningham -Plea bargain -Cooperated
Brent Wilkes, Dusty Foggo -indicted
The U.S. attorney in San Diego notified the Justice Department of search warrants in a Republican bribery scandal last May 10, one day before the attorney general's chief of staff warned the White House of a "real problem" with her, a Democratic senator said yesterday.

The prosecutor, Carol S. Lam, was dismissed seven months later as part of an effort by the Justice Department and the White House to fire eight U.S. attorneys.

(Lam) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032701492.html
On January 13, the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Dan Dzwilewski, head of FBI's San Diego office, as saying Lam was crucial to ongoing investigations. "I guarantee politics is involved," he was quoted saying.

Feinstein said her chief counsel had called the FBI's San Diego office to verify the accuracy of the story. She said the office confirmed it was true "but they also said they'd been warned to say no more."

Rep Jerry Lewis: (Lam) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-usattys15mar15,1,5413433.story?coll=la-news-a_section
On May 11 the month after Sampson told the White House counsel's office that Lam was being targeted for dismissal. The Times reported that federal prosecutors in Los Angeles had begun an investigation into Lewis. They were trying to connect Lewis, who at that time chaired the powerful House Appropriations Committee, to a Washington lobbyist linked to the Cunningham bribery case, The Times said.

Shortly before noon Washington time that day, Sampson e-mailed Kelley to complain about Lam.

The Lewis probe was an extension of the case Lam started in San Diego. But it was being handled by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles because Lewis' Redlands headquarters falls under its purview.