working out a plea???
They seem to have vanished just as soon as he was forced out of Congress.
The asshole who prosecuted Delay is retiring from office.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8THGFT81.html
Ronnie Earle decided to retire ...
but he did get the political scalp he always wanted
on his lodgepole ...(mhbih)
God Bless Texas
I have no idea what the result of this will be.
Not just Tom DeLay, but Conrad Burns’ investigation that LOST his Senate seat was DROPPED yesterday!!!
They’re very, very slowly making their way through the courts. Presumably Ronnie Earle doesn’t want it to go to trial quickly, since there’s no real case.
Indeed, on Intrade they have the odds of DeLay being convicted down to one in five.
Does it matter? DeLay was ousted. Just like when Blumenthal was suing Drudge for the impeachment news break - as soon as impeachment was resolved, the case evaporated.
Lawyers are scum.
Fellow republicans did not stand up to the scumbag earl.Delay was doing “too” good a job.So republicans have one set of rules if one of their own is indicted(step down) and the rats stay in office until they are led away in chains(jefferson?).The battle within the party for the leadership positions is a back stabbing affair or so it would seem.Who will be next I wonder.
[On October 13, 2006, it was reported in the media that the Justice Department was investigating whether(Republican Congressman) Weldon illegally traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter. This represents a more serious investigation following on the heels of an FBI probe, ongoing for the past several months, into similar charges. Three days later, FBI agents raided his daughter’s home as well as five other locations of associates of Weldon in the Philadelphia area and in Jacksonville, Florida. On October 18, 2006, The Washington Post reported that a grand jury had been impaneled as part of the investigation.[6] However, there has been no evidence of any improprieties and the House Ethics Committee cleared Congressman Weldon of any wrongdoing in a 2005 hearing.] —Wikepedia
The FBI raids came less than a month before voters were to decide whether to reelect Rep. Weldon. He lost the election
I have to agree with Mr. Keats.
He didn’t help his own cause a whole lot when, in the middle of the so-called “Republican” pork spending orgy, he declared that he couldn’t find any more pork to cut from the budget.
The howling for DeLay’s scalp went the same place that the howling for Alberto Gonzales’ scalp went when he exited.
The DemocRats got their scalp, that’s all.
take a look at this article in the los angeles times yesterday:
“ex-sen burns is no longer under investigation in abramoff affair”, p. 15.
the democrap media admits that he lost narrowly to a democrap after
the democraps made an issue of his ties to abramoff.
problem: burns was not guilty.