Jury acquits immigration agent

Immigration agent Cory Voorhis "was basically doing his job" when he provided confidential information on illegal immigrant plea bargains for a campaign ad against now-Gov. Bill Ritter, according to the foreman of the jury that found him not guilty Tuesday.

Eighteen months after the Bob Beauprez campaign for governor collapsed over charges Voorhis had illegally provided secret government information for a political attack ad, that jury said there was nothing criminal about it.

 Voorhis told the Beauprez campaign that an accused heroin dealer, who was allowed to plead to trespassing on farmland in Denver, was the same man later arrested under a different name on a charge of sexual assault on a child in San Francisco. The sex charge was dropped, but the ad did not say that.

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