Tom DeLay's Lucky Laundering Loophole
In a very odd legal twist that his lawyers plan to milk, disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay may soon find himself free of money-laundering charges. The Texas turn: In a related case, judges found that in old money-laundering cases like the one DeLay faces, the law applied only to cash—not check—transactions. DeLay's potential lucky break: His case involves a check, not cash. It may be a technicality, but associates of the Texas political powerhouse say they plan to make it stick, and then use it to assail Ronnie Earle as an out-of-control prosecutor.
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Corruption IS Ronnie Earle
It has been difficult to know what crime actually occurred beyond the Dems being pissed off that DeLay caused 4 of their career Congressmen to lose through redistricting.
Corruption is Ronnie Earle. To his credit (and he deserves very little) his funaticism even compelled him to once indict himself!
Not a technicality or loophole
This was not a technicality or a loophole. There was no law that was broken. Ronnie Earle tried to make up a law and then tried to prosecute DeLay on this nonexistent law. Also, this ruling came from an appellate court ruling on a pre-trial motion. There still hasn't been a trial. DeLay filed to waive all rights to an appeal so he could go straight to trial but the judge denied that motion and thus three years later they are still in pre-trial motions. DeLay has not tried to "weasel out" of anything. It is outrageous that this prosecutor could make up a law, falsely charge DeLay, taint his reputation forever just because he didn't like him.
Delay
It's a shame that Mexico didn't win back inthe 1840's
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