On 6 April 2000, Senator (never been to Walter Reed but if you give me a microphone I’ll fake it) Schumer wrote this letter to AG Janet Reno “urging her” to drop DOJ claims in the Oneida land owner lawsuit brough by the DOJ:

“SCHUMER CALLS ON ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO TO DROP ALL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLAIMS AGAINST ONEIDA LANDOWNERS SENATOR DEMANDS FAIRNESS FOR ONEIDA LANDOWNERS

In the wake of failed negotiations in the Oneida Indian Nation land claims, US Senator Charles E. Schumer today wrote to US Attorney General Janet Reno urging the U.S. Department of Justice to drop all claims against the Oneida landowners, including financial claims.

In his letter to Reno, Schumer asked her “to take the final, critical step of removing the landowners from all liability in this suit whatsoever. Innocent landowners should not be held financially or legally responsible in any final judgement.”

As long as the landowners remain a party in the lawsuit between the Justice Department and the State of New York, they could be held liable for monetary damages such as rental value for the length of possession and future lease payments. Schumer asked that the 20,000 landowners named in the Justice Department action on behalf of the Oneida Nation be dropped from the lawsuit and that damages be sought only from New York State.

On Monday, the Justice Department is expected to file a status report on the case with the Court In his letter, Schumer asked that it “include a withdrawal of all claims against the landowners and a clear statement that neither damages nor any other type of relief will be sought against them. There is absolutely no reason to keep these citizens living in fear,” Schumer wrote.

Last year, Schumer successfully persuaded the Justice Department to remove the “ejectment” claim it had placed against the landowners from its lawsuit.

Now this might have been a good thing for Chucky to do, although Schumer has never done anything for the “good of it”, but merely to get his mug on camera.¬† But it’s one of hundreds of examples of how he loves to “threaten” those charged with executing the legal process in America.¬†¬† But again, Schumer doesn’t do anything except for an underlying motivation.

Case in point on this story Clarice Feldman at American Thinker writes:

“Lost in the kerfuffle about the Gonzales firings of 8 US Attorneys is the fact that Chuck Schumer has a hidden agenda: acting not only as the Senator from New York but as well as the Attorney General of the U.S. He pushed for the appointment of a Special Counsel, wrote at least 2 letters to the Attorney General¬† resquesting updates on the investigation and demanding action on the CIA referral letter respecting the public identification of Plame,. He obtained from Deputy AG Comey the promise to appoint a special counsel and looked the other way when one was appointed outside the statutory and constitutional framework for such appointments. Both Comey and Fitzgerald were well-known to him at the time having worked in the Southern District of New York .

If he succeeds in forcing Gonzales to resign , Gonzales’ Deputy will undoubtedly take over. That deputy, McNulty, like Comey and Fitzgerald, also comes from the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and is close to Schumer and his former colleagues. “

It would seem that we need to see more of why Schumer has such a vested interest in this.