Texas Grand Jury indicts Tom DeLay on Money Laundering Charges (new charges)

[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[Delta Dawn]

I expect any day now that Tom Delay will be indicted for being the shooter on the grassy knoll so long ago in Dallas.

Why not? Got to bring him down somehow. This prosecutor needs to be reigned in.

[Christopher Lincoln]

See comment 51.

[winstonchurchill]

Looks like Earl realized that the first indictment would never make it past a judge so he decided to up the ante.

Yes, but to paraphrase the old aphorism about the smell of a rose and its name, "A non-existent rose by any other name has the same non-existent smell."

Earle is casting about for a way to describe a legal transaction in an illegal way.

[PAR35]

If Delay is found innocent(and i assume he is)can he sue,or at the least recover his court costs?

No, and no.

[Patriot from Philly]

This is the direct result of weakness on the part of the republicans.

Indictments for Bush Administration officials on the Plame case too. Because Bush caved to the New York Times.

Weak, weak, weak.

[kcvl]

The guys making the movie about Ronnie Earle prosecuting Tom DeLay...


Schermbeck is a community organizer who works in Texas with * Public Citizen and the National Toxics Campaign, and Birnbaum is a nonfiction filmmaker based in Dallas.


One-Time Maryland Public Television Filmmaker Mark Birnbaum

Birnbaum, goes back to the early 1970s, just back from Vietnam with a portfolio of noncombat still photos, he returned to Baltimore intent on becoming a professional fashion photographer. Birnbaum endured hundreds of ad agency doors being slammed in his face before finally talking and shooting his way into a filmmaker's position at the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting.

Birnbaum's film experience, however, was limited to a couple of shorts he edited for the Army in Vietnam.

They handed me a camera and a couple of rolls of film and said, 'Go up to Deep Creek Lake and make a film about the fishing tournament,'" Birnbaum explains. After a quick study of the American Cinematographer's Manual to figure out how to load his camera, then a brief stop to borrow a light meter, Birnbaum went to Deep Creek Lake, shot a film about fishing, and got the job.

After three years, Birnbaum's experience in Maryland parlayed into a gig in public broadcasting at KERA in Dallas, where production funding was in its heyday and people like Jim Lehrer were starting to make a name for PBS. Four years of projects galore at KERA brought Birnbaum to a closer appreciation of the Lone Star State, though he still won't wear cowboy boots. "I finally went independent, but my experience at KERA allowed me to really get into Texana, to learn about the oil bidness and the cattle bidness and country music and everything that Texas is."


http://markbirnbaum.com


* Public Citizen: Organization founded by Ralph Nader, public-interest watchdog organization frequently critical of corporations.


http://www.citizen.org/


Clean Up the House!

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, under indictment for conspiracy to launder corporate campaign funds, has spun a web of corruption that gives enormous power to business interests to use the government for their own profits.

The House has replaced DeLay with a new majority leader – Roy Blunt, who has contributed more money than anyone else to DeLay’s legal defense. Read which politicians and corporations are paying for DeLay’s lawyers. Find out more here about DeLay’s brazen abuse of power.

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Jim Schermbeck has been a community organizer in Texas since 1977, working with Public Citizen and the National Toxics Campaign. From 1996-99, he was Executive Director of Downwinders at Risk, and has written and produced several short films on the environmental and health risks of burning hazardous waste in cement plants, including Danger Downwind with the American Lung Association of Texas. A Fort Worth native, he lives in Slaton, Texas.


Major funding is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Open Society Institute (George Soros)


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Mr. Schermbeck is an environmental organizer and activist in North Texas. From 1977 to 1988, he focused on nuclear power and waste issues, helping to found the Armadillo Coalition of Texas, the Comanche Peak Life Force, the Lone Star Alliance, and the Comanche Peak Citizen Audit, in opposition to the construction and operation of Texas Utilities' Comanche Peak nuclear power plant in Somervell County, near Glen Rose, Texas. His efforts ranged from preparing legal and financial arguments against the plant to organizing civil disobedience and occupation of the plant site. From 1989 through 1993, he served as director of the North Texas office of Texans United, the regional affiliate of the National Toxics Campaign. In this capacity, he organized for cleanup of an aluminum and zinc smelting and casting plant in Crowley, a lead facility in West Dallas, and incinerators in Dallas and Midlothian. During the 1990s, Mr. Schermbeck has also been staff organizer for Downwinders at Risk, a group focused on reducing emissions from the upset-plagued Chaparral Steel facility and the hazardous waste incineration at the TXI, Holcim and North Texas cement kilns.

http://texaslegacy.org/m/narrators/schermbeckjim.html

[OldFriend]

Clearly this info was leaked to certain reporters who were discussing this money laundering....last week.

[Eastbound]

as in
New and Improved. ;-)"

No doubt. Looks like they decided to cover up the hole in the first one. Especially since no specifics on what he was indicted for on the first one was the focus on all the talk shows.

Anyone know the date of filing on the new charge?

[fabriclady]

"Time to get medieval on some dems"

You bet. Being nice has not worked, call your Congressman, tell him we want action.

[msnimje]

SSDD

[fabriclady]

"This is the direct result of weakness on the part of the republicans."

And I am fed up.
I am beginning to see how low evil dims can go. You can bet the dim Congressman are behind a lot of this.
Time to investigate Hillary, Kennedy, Kerry.
Just how did Kerry get all those medals?
How did Kennedy get out of the water and the young woman drowned?
How did Hillary evade conviction on Whitewater charges?
Who looked at the FBI files when billy was president?
Now I could write all night??????

[Stultis]

I wonder if Earle told Delay that there was a second grand jury????

Second? Isn't this the seventh or eighth GJ that Earle has attempted to turn on Delay? (He musta mistook "ham" for "spam" sandwich the first six times.)

[Patriot from Philly]

It's coordinated like in Rathergate: the media, the DNC, and any corrupt legal rep or judge they can get.

The only thing is that this Earle guy is such a clown that it could backfire although the press will try to control the narrative and frame this: evil DeLay, corrupt Republicans.

The Republicans need to make an example of one of these clowns and let them know there are consequences for this.

[TheLion]

Found this info over at Bloomberg but couldn't get a link:

``Ronnie Earle has stooped to a new low with his brand of prosecutorial abuse,'' DeLay said today in a statement. ``He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a 'do-over' since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice.''

His lawyers had argued that the initial indictment should be dismissed because the conspiracy law did not apply to the state election code in 2002, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Texas Redistricting

DeLay and two associates, Jim Ellis and John Colyandro, are accused of taking $190,000 in corporate money for the 2002 state legislative races and sending it to the Republican National Committee, which in turn contributed $190,000 to Texas legislative candidates. Under Texas election law, corporate donations cannot be spent on political campaigns.

[kcvl]

And the "movie guys" must have also been told. They were also discussing it.

[TheLion]

If this doesn't work, maybe Earle will try for a third one.


Statement by Tom Delay's Spokesman
October 03, 2005 07:16 PM EST



"Ronnie Earle has gone from dangerous to desperate with his latest actions of partisan injustice."
"Earlier today, lawyers for Mr. DeLay filed a motion to quash and dismiss the previous baseless charges brought by Ronnie Earle. Fully understanding his error in manufacturing an illegitimate and baseless charge that could not hold up against Mr. DeLay, Ronnie Earle panicked and decided to persuade yet another grand jury to bring this ridiculous new charge against Mr. DeLay today. "

"He is simply looking to make sure that his partisan hunt of Mr. DeLay--and the movie being filmed about it-still arrives at its desired ending. This is an absolute abomination of justice."

-Kevin Madden, spokesman for Rep. Tom DeLay


http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=8723

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[Paleo Conservative]

Texas Peoples Republic of Austin Grand Jury indicts Tom DeLay on Money Laundering Charges

[CyberAnt]

ROTFLOL!

Is that the same "money laundering" the dems did at almost the exact same moment DeLay sent money to the RNC and the RNC returned it to individual candidates .. You mean the $75,000 Martin Frost sent to the DNC and the DNC sent it back to their candidates ..?? That "money laundering".

ROTFLOL! This people must be high on something.

[antonico]

This is hysterically funny! If Earle thought the case against money laundering was so strong, why didn't the 6th Grand Jury, that indicted him for conspiracy, INDICT him for money laundering? Do the Democrats really think they have a cause to celebrate? Do they think this makes their case look stronger by shopping for ANY group of jurors to indict him? Do they think this looks LESS like a personal vendetta now?

These liberal's spiral downward into oblivion just gets more obvious every day.