Earle is sooooo busted.
Posted on 10/14/2005 9:14:31 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior
They don't have list of candidates at the heart of the laundering case, just a 'similar' one
AUSTIN - Travis County prosecutors admitted Friday they lack physical proof of a list of Republican candidates that is at the heart of money-laundering indictments against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and two of his associates.
The list is key to prosecutors being able to prove that corporate money that could not be legally spent on Texas candidates was specifically exchanged at the national level for donations that legally could be spent on Republican candidates for the Texas House.
Indictments against DeLay, Jim Ellis and John Colyandro state that Ellis gave "a document that contained the names of several candidates for the Texas House" to a Republican National Committee official in 2002 in a scheme to swap $190,000 in restricted corporate money for the same amount of money from individuals that could be legally used by Texas candidates.
But prosecutors said Friday in court that they only had a "similar" list and not the one allegedly received by then-RNC Deputy Director Terry Nelson.
A lawyer for Ellis said prosecutors' inability to produce the list mentioned in the indictments is on par with the tactics used by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the communist witch hunts of the 1950s.
"I'll tell you what I think about this list. In the 1950s, a man named McCarthy claimed to have a list of 200 communists in the State Department, and he didn't," said J.D. Pauerstein, a lawyer for Jim Ellis, the director of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority. "They (prosecutors) don't know what list they're talking about, even though they specify it in their indictment."
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Who trusts zealot lawyers?
It may be a forgery, but the info is essentially true. Bwawawawwawawawa!
Earle is sooooo busted.
What an absolute goatscrew.
Hmmmm....I wonder if we check the history of this DA, he may have got his tutelage as a young sage working with CBS....naaahhhh!
Just damn.
Maybe Mary Mapes has them.
From when she was 12? ROFLMAO
Isn't this the sort of tactic that brought Dan Rather down?
Get a rope! Delay must go down, regardless of the expense to the taxpayers!
:)
No problem - they should be able to gin up any document they might need.
After all, if it didn't happen, it should have - because Delay is an EEEE-vil Republican and we're well-intentioned champions of the little people.
Time for DeLay to file a defamation of character suit against Earle's sorry ass.
Thats what they all say
Would this be cause for dismisal?
"...McCarthy claimed to have a list of 200 communists..."
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Doncha love it when the Pubbies use the Left's flimsy arguments against them...Oooh it feels good.
Check Kinko's
"Like, these, like, gross Democrats keep, like, harassing me, totally."
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