Innocent (D)
No matter the charges or evidence.
I'm tired of this law-for-thee-but-not-for-me serfdom.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Could have been much worse. Thank God he will be able to have a life when he gets out. Three Years will go fast. If I were him, I would write a book or two while inside. They are able to do that.
Mission Accomplished!
Yikes. What did he REALLY do, or is this just a Kangaroo Kourt prosecution? Did he get prosecuted for somethig most DC politicos do?
And Rangle will never see the inside of a jail cell.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge has ordered U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
The sentence comes after a jury in November convicted DeLay on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay was once one of the most powerful men in U.S. politics, ascending to the No. 2 job in the House of Representatives.
The former Houston-area congressman had faced up to life in prison. His attorneys asked for probation.
His real guilt ? Daring to try to win the U.S. House for the Republicans. This is disgusting.
Two issues come to my mind:
Is this what congress had in mind with the money laundering statutes?
Isn’t this an end run around the constitution which left the discipline of congress members for acts related to their office up to the respective congressional body?
Both him and Scooter Libby made the mistake of thinking that the Justice system is fair and impartial. It’s a rigged game and once you’re in it the odds are very good that you’ll be found guilty of something (or forced to admit to guilt just to avoid jail time). Neither Scooter or Tom had enough money/power to derail this system and this should be a lesson for anyone here, if a cop/prosecutor wants to put you in jail, he can with the willing accent of 12 men/women who are so brain dead now that it hardly matters that they are there since they automatically assume that since you’ve been charged you must be guilty of something!
Read some of the blogs that deal with this, it will scare the Beelzebub out of you and make you wonder what happen to America.
If democrats can do this injustice to Delay then they can do it to any of us. Freedom must be protected.
The conservative justices appointed by the Republican Congress stuck down McCain-Feingold and all similar laws passed in the last 100 years.So Democrats are putting Delay in prison because of made up lies based on laws that are evil, unconstitutional and have been repealed.
It will be overturned on appeal. The law he was convicted for didn’t even exist when he forwarded donations to the RNC. Typical Texas Democrats pretending they care about the law.
The Judge should be in jail. What a jackass.
And the 0bamas got an FHA loan on their Chicago house that was $900,000+ over the legal limit, and they are in the White House.
DeLay’s a piker.
Innocent (D)
No matter the charges or evidence.
I'm tired of this law-for-thee-but-not-for-me serfdom.
I’m sure he’ll appeal. Somebody will help him out.