Posted on 10/03/2005 3:16:22 PM PDT by Racehorse
AUSTIN A Texas grand jury on Monday indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
A different grand jury whose term ended last week indicted him on a conspiracy charge, forcing DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader.
Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban on corporate campaign contributions by funneling the money through the DeLay-founded Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee to the Republican National Committee in Washington. The RNC then sent back like amounts to distribute to Texas candidates in 2002, the indictment alleges.
The defense will show the entire charge to be bogus. The money transaction was legal. The prosecution ws malicious.
Beating the conspiracy indictment didn't necessarily confront that, and could/would be spun as "getting off on a technicality."
Thank you. I hope it will boil down to what the truth is.
I see. Yeah...It will look better for Delay when he beats this one.
And, since it looks like Earle knows the first indictment won't hold up due to being based on a law that was not in effect at the time (which is why he ran and shopped the other grand jury last week), the second indictment will go down quickly too.
Because, like the idiot he is, Earle based it on the same non violation.
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