1. David Claudio Iglesias was born on 1958 and is a Panamanian-American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
23 Facts About David Iglesias
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David Iglesias is the Jean and E Floyd Kvamme Associate Professor of Politics and Law.
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David Iglesias was appointed by President George W Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the US Senate in October 2001.
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In October 2008, David Iglesias was re-activated by the Navy as part of a special prosecution team for Guantanamo detainees suspected of committing terrorism and war crimes.
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David Iglesias supervised the conviction of the US v Noor Uthman terrorism case; one of only six completed war crimes cases since the Commissions were re-established.
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In 2009, David Iglesias was named as an honoree to Esquire magazine's annual "Best and Brightest" issue for his work as a terrorism prosecutor with the Defense Department's Office of Military Commissions.
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David Iglesias was born in Panama City, Panama to Southern Baptist missionaries; his mother, Margaret Geiger, was a German-American, and his father, Claudio David Iglesias, was a Kuna-Panamanian.
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David Iglesias obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law.
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David Iglesias served in the United States Navy and later in the US Naval Reserve.
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David Iglesias was a Judge Advocate, at the Pentagon and Naval Legal Service Office, in Washington, DC, at the Washington Navy Yard.
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David Iglesias ran for New Mexico Attorney General as a Republican in 1998, but narrowly lost to Democrat Patricia A Madrid.
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David Iglesias was a state Assistant Attorney General for the state of New Mexico, then an assistant city attorney for the city of Albuquerque.
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David Iglesias returned to employment with the state of New Mexico, first for the State Risk Management Legal Office as Chief Counsel, and the Taxation and Revenue Department as General Counsel.
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David Iglesias was an associate with the law firm of Walz and Associates in Albuquerque when he was nominated as US Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001.
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David Iglesias headed a panel that advised the US Attorney General John Ashcroft on border and immigration matters.
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In October 2006, when Domenici called to ask about the progress of an investigation, New Mexico US David Iglesias said he felt this inquiry was trying to "pressure" him to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved Aragon.
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One month after the election, David Iglesias was fired by the Bush administration, and his firing was central to the dismissal of US Attorneys controversy.
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Larry Gomez, who had been David Iglesias' assistant, took over as acting US Attorney, but never received a presidential appointment to the post.
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One of the stated reasons for David Iglesias' dismissal was dissatisfaction in his prosecution of voter-fraud cases.
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In 2008 David Iglesias wrote In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration.
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Host Jon Stewart pointed out that David Iglesias had been a committed Republican.
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Stewart asked whether David Iglesias' experiences made him feel disappointed and betrayed.
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In October 2008, a report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General found that David Iglesias had been wrongfully dismissed because he had refused to pursue prosecutions against the Democrat-linked community organization ACORN and a prominent New Mexico Democrat.