NYT: Prosecutors Seek More of DeLay's Records

[Pirate Smile]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - Texas prosecutors in the criminal case against Representative Tom DeLay issued a subpoena on Wednesday for records of transactions between his national political action committee and a political committee run by his successor as House majority leader, Roy Blunt of Missouri.

The subpoena, issued in Austin, the Texas capital, asked for all records from Mr. DeLay's committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, about its contributions from 2000 to 2002 to Mr. Blunt's committee, Rely on Your Own Beliefs Fund, and to the state Republican Party in Missouri, where Mr. Blunt's son is governor.

The subpoena offered no explanation of why prosecutors wanted the records, although news reports have recently questioned why thousands of dollars raised by Mr. DeLay and his committee to entertain delegates at the 2000 Republican convention were shifted to Mr. Blunt's committee.

Mr. Blunt's committee made a $10,000 contribution at about the same time to a charity controlled by Mr. DeLay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/17/politics/17delay.html

[stevedeshazer]

1. Blunt corruption.

The steaming pile gets deeper.

K & R

[central scrutinizer]

2. You launder my money and I'll launder yours

nfm

[loudsue]

3. No shit!! Do these guys EVER do anything the HONEST way??

:rofl: I know...that was a dumb question!

:kick::kick::kick:

[sofa king]

4. They wouldn't have jobs if they were honest.

I know you were joking, but I still have to say it. The Republican Party is all about screwing the little guy. Shift the tax burden onto him, take away the services he gets for his money, keep his wages down, you know, that sort of shit.

Deceiving the public takes enormous sums of money, more than they are legally allowed to spend. As long as the GOP is out to fuck you over, they can never be honest about it.

[Judi Lynn]

5. DA says case against DeLay was clean

DA says case against DeLay was clean

Web Posted: 11/17/2005 12:00 AM CST

Lisa Sandberg
Express-News Staff Writer
AUSTIN — State prosecutors Wednesday denied that they acted improperly in building a felony money laundering case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay.
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Earle said in the subpoena that he was particularly interested in contributions, correspondence, memos and transaction approval documentation by DeLay's national political committee Americans for a Republican Majority to Rely on Your Own Beliefs Fund and the Missouri Republican Party's nonfederal account.
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Last month, the Associated Press reported that DeLay, a Republican congressman from Sugar Land, deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to Blunt.
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A pretrial hearing on several defense motions, including a request to move the trial out of liberal Travis County and into DeLay's heavily Republican home district of Fort Bend County is scheduled for Tuesday before Senior Judge Pat Priest of San Antonio.
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA111705.01B.state_response.16cb0a06.html
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