Nevada’s GOP Gov-Elect Jim Gibbons Still Under Investigation for Alleged Assault and Cover Up

Jeff German for the Las Vegas Sun reports: Metro Police have subpoenaed telephone records of Republican Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons, political strategist Sig Rogich and other witnesses in the investigation into allegations that Gibbons assaulted a woman and tried to force himself on her sexually. (…) Gibbons, a five-term congressman, is among those being asked to give another interview - this time at the police department, the sources said. The new police interviews come as Gibbons' defeated Democratic opponent, state Sen. Dina Titus, and others, including Gary Peck of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, have called for an independent investigation because of concerns over how Metro has handled the probe - both of the Oct. 13 incident and of Mazzeo's claim that the Gibbons campaign tried to cover it up. Sheriff Bill Young, who has strongly defended the police investigation, has been criticized after acknowledging that he telephoned Gibbons the day after the incident to arrange for him to be questioned by detectives. The interview took place later that day in the congressman's hotel suite at the Marriott Residence Inn across from McCormick & Schmick's. Young also has been faulted for making public statements early in the investigation that appeared to favor Gibbons, a fellow Republican whom the sheriff endorsed. via TPM's David Kurtz