The Hill reports that the judge (presumably referring to Magistrate Velasco) in the Renzi case has scheduled a special hearing to determine whether prosecutors improperly listened to privileged attorney-client communications captured during the wiretap of Renzi’s cell phone. As the article notes, this is a separate matter from the Speech or Debate issues regarding the wiretap.
This matter does not seem to involve any legal or factual issues peculiar to congressional defendants and so it is not one that I have been particularly following. It is worth noting, however, that The Hill article suggests that this incident, combined with the prosecutorial misconduct in the Stevens case, may reflect a pattern of abuse in the Justice Department’s investigations of Members of Congress. A bit of a stretch, IMHO, but there you have it.