Prosecutor subpoenas Cunningham-related companies in Texas case

ap on San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 12/13/05 | Suzanne Gamboa - ap

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WASHINGTON – A Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

District Attorney Ronnie Earle issued subpoenas last Thursday for California businessmen Brent Wilkes and Max Gelwix, records of Perfect Wave Technologies, Wilkes Corp. and ADCS Inc. in connection with a contribution to a fundraising committee at the center of the investigation that led to DeLay's indictment on money laundering charges.

Perfect Wave contributed $15,000 in September 2002 to Texans for a Republican Majority, a fundraising committee founded by DeLay.

Cunningham resigned in late November after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to companies.

DeLay was forced to step aside as majority leader in late November after he was indicted on state charges of conspiracy to violate Texas election laws. A second grand jury indicted him on charges of conspiracy to launder money and money laundering charges.

The initial charges have been dismissed, but a judge has let stand the latter charges and DeLay faces possible trial on them.

Earle alleges that DeLay and two co-conspirators funneled $190,000 in corporate contributions through the Texas political committee and an arm of the National Republican Committee to seven GOP state legislative candidates.

Earle alleges DeLay and his two associates were trying to circumvent Texas' law prohibiting spending corporate money on campaigns, except for administrative expenses.

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It won't end. Imagine if Hillary was Republican and the case out in California went forward.

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also on the net titled as

Prosecutor Issues Subpoenas in DeLay Case

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Ronnie Earle is a partisan hack.

He is a congenital liar.

Texas is embarrassed by his actions, but since he has no shame he will continue to Mapes his pants.

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By issuing this subpoena, Ronnie is admitting that he doesn't yet have the evidence necessary to prove his case. This is last minute flailing about on the part of the Travis County prosecutors office. Now that Judge Priest has kindly given them a theory on which to prosecute, they can go about looking for evidence to meet the standard. What a bunch of bumblers. They wait for the judge to give some coherence to their theory and then they try to color between the lines. Pathetic. I doubt seriously that these subpoenas turn up anything, but my fear is that Ronnie still takes the thing all the way to trial and is able to convince some liberal Travis County jury to convict for whatever.