It's nice when AZ makes the news...and it's not because of Paul Gosar or Andy Biggs

It's not for a *good* reason, but it isn't because of Gosar or Biggs...or Kari Lake, Wendy Rogers, Mark Finchem, or any of the other usual suspects.

This time.

From AP (emphasis added by me)-

Democrats seek criminal charges against Trump Interior head

Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee asked the Justice Department 

on Wednesday to investigate whether a Trump administration interior secretary 

engaged in possible criminal conduct while helping an Arizona developer get a crucial 

permit for a housing project.

The criminal referral says David Bernhardt pushed for approval of the project by 

developer Michael Ingram, a Republican donor and supporter of former 

President Donald Trump, despite a federal wildlife official’s finding that it would 

threaten habitats for imperiled species.

Bernhardt led Interior from 2019 to 2021. In 2017, he was the No. 2 official at 

the department when the Fish and Wildlife Service, an Interior Department agency, 

reversed its opposition to the Villages at Vigneto, the proposed 28,000-home 

development in southern Arizona, and allowed it to move forward.

Democrat Reps. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, the committee chairman, and 

Katie Porter of California, who leads a subcommittee on oversight and investigations. 

made the referral in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. They said the 

committee has conducted an extensive investigation into the circumstances 

surrounding the 2017 decision.

Ingram gives a lot of money to R candidates, sometimes playing both sides in a primary (note: his first initial is "K", for Keith).