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Houston ChronicleAn investigator for the Harris County District Attorney's Office allegedly accessed a confidential law enforcement database for a Texas private investigator on the Colorado Republican Party's payroll, according to records filed in federal court.
Much of the documentation outlining the alleged misuse of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, which includes FBI records of criminal histories, was sealed by a federal magistrate judge in Denver on Tuesday.
The alleged abuse surfaced in a criminal case involving Cory Voorhis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Denver, who was charged in October in connection with leaking information to representatives for then-gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez.
Beauprez was in a contentious race last year with the former district attorney in Denver, Bill Ritter, a Democrat who won the election.
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