A Travis County jury today found former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay guilty of political money laundering charges relating to a corporate money swap in the 2002 elections.
The verdict came down five years after DeLay was forced to step down as the second most powerful Republican in the U.S. House. The charges also led DeLay to resign from his Sugar Land congressional seat in 2006.
DeLay was accused of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. On the conspiracy charge, DeLay faces a sentence of two to 20 years in prison and five to 99 years or life in prison on the money laundering count…
At the center of the case against DeLay was an exchange of $190,000 in corporate donations to TRMPAC for an equal amount of money donated by individuals to the Republican National Committee. The RNC money was given to seven Texas candidates specified by TRMPAC.
Corporate money cannot be used in candidate campaigns in Texas.
It’s nice to be able to say something positive about a Texas jury.
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Not to mention the hypocrisy that is always in the right’s rationalizations. Most of what Rangel is being dunned for would not have been illegal if the hospital he was soliciting for would have named the wing after someone else.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/28/AR2010112804066.html
I guess the Washington Post is just another conservative group now.
makes me want to drink alchoholic beverages