Tom DeLay most likely facing prison term..

[IversonAli3]

Now I know that most of you don't care, but for the few who do, here's a nice piece of news. The most powerful republican in congress is most likely facing a prison term soon. He was indicted of a felony charge of trying to evade state laws.

It's illegal for corporations in Texas to donate money directly to a political party.
Tom DeLay has a office in Texas named the "Political Action Committee", he accepted donations to that company and then thought he'd be slick and proceeded to transfer the money from that account to a wing of the Republican national party. But he got caught!

Basically he's in deep sh*t, the proof against him is piled up extremely high, and he's resorted to accusing the Distrist Attorney of partisan zealotism. Everyone that knows something about politics knws this is a last ditch attempt to try to justify himself but he's failing miserably since it was a grand jury that indicted him, not the district attorney. He's already stepped down from his post in congress.
He's facing a minimum of 2-6 years in prison, and $10,000 in fines.

Today is a good day.:o

WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury Wednesday on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws, forcing him to temporarily step aside from his GOP post. He is the highest-ranking member of Congress to face criminal prosecution.

A defiant DeLay said he had done nothing wrong and denounced the Democratic prosecutor who pursued the case as a "partisan fanatic." He said, "This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham."
Nonetheless, DeLay's temporary departure and the prospect of a criminal trial for one of the Republicans' most visible leaders reverberated throughout the GOP-run Congress, which was already struggling with ethics questions surrounding its Senate leader.
Republicans quickly moved to fill the void, while voicing polite support for DeLay. Speaker Dennis Hastert named Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt to take over most of DeLay's leadership duties.
Ronnie Earle, the Democratic prosecutor in Austin who led the investigation, denied politics was involved. "Our job is to prosecute abuses of power and to bring those abuses to the public," he said. He has noted previously that he has prosecuted many Democrats in the past.
DeLay, 58, was indicted on a single felony count of conspiring with two political associates. The two previously had been charged with the same conspiracy count. They are John Colyandro, former executive director of a Texas political action committee formed by DeLay, and Jim Ellis, who heads DeLay's national political committee.
The indictment stems from a plan DeLay helped set in motion in 2001 to help Republicans win control of the Texas House in the 2002 elections for the first time since Reconstruction.
The grand jury accused the men of conspiring to route corporate donations from DeLay's Texas committee to the Republican Party in Washington, then returning the money back to Texas legislative candidates. It was a scheme intended to evade a state law outlawing corporate donations going to candidates, the indictment said.
The indictment also mentioned another Republican figure, President Bush's campaign political director Terry Nelson, though it did not charge him with any wrongdoing.
The grand jury alleged Nelson received the money ? along with a list of Texas lawmakers who were to get donations ? from the Texas committee while working at the Republican National Committee. Nelson did not return calls to his office seeking comment.
DeLay and others conspired to "engage in conduct that would constitute the offense of knowingly making a political contribution in violation" of Texas law, the indictment charged. However, it did not specify how DeLay was involved.
DeLay, whose conduct on separate issues was criticized by the House ethics committee last year, was unrelenting in his criticism of Earle. He suggested the district attorney had promised not to prosecute him and then changed course under pressure from Democrats and criticism from a newspaper in Texas.
The majority leader derided Earle as an "unabashed partisan zealot" and a "rogue district attorney."
However, the grand jury's foreman, William Gibson, told The Associated Press that Earle didn't pressure members to indict DeLay. "Ronnie Earle didn't indict him. The grand jury indicted him," Gibson said in an interview at his home.
Gibson, 76, a retired sheriff's deputy, said of DeLay: "He's probably doing a good job. I don't have anything against him. Just something happened."
DeLay's lawyer immediately sought to protect the lesader from further embarassment, even as they pressed to learn the evidence against their client. "I'm going to keep from having Tom DeLay taken down in handcuffs, photographed and fingerprinted. That's uncalled for," defense attorney Dick DeGuerin said.
DeLay got some polite support from the White House, where press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush still considered DeLay "a good ally, a leader who we have worked closely with to get things done for the American people."
"I think the president's view is that we need to let the legal process work," the spokesman said.
By any measure, DeLay's indictment was historic. A Senate historian, Donald Ritchie, said after researching the subject, "There's never been a member of Congress in a leadership position who has been indicted."
Two others members of Congress have been indicted since 1996. Former Rep. William Janklow (news, bio, voting record), R-S.D., was convicted of vehicular homicide and sentenced to 100 days in prison after his car struck and killed a motorcyclist in 2003. Former Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted on charges from a 2001 indictment accusing him of racketeering and accepting bribes.
Democrats, who have long accused DeLay of ethical impropriety, made much of the indictment, which came just days after federal authorities began a criminal inquiry into Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist over his sale of stock in a family-founded hospital company.
DeLay's indictment "is the latest example that Republicans in Congress are plagued by a culture of corruption at the expense of the American people," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, setting up Democrats' pitch to win back Congress in 2006.
Criminal conspiracy is a Texas felony punishable by six months to two years in a state jail and a fine of up to $10,000. The potential two-year sentence forced DeLay to step down under House Republican rules.
Texas law prohibits corporate money from being used to advocate the election or defeat of candidates; the money can be used only for administrative expenses.
The indictment alleged that the DeLay-founded Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee accepted $155,000 from companies, including Sears Roebuck, and placed the money in an account.
The PAC then wrote a $190,000 check from that same account to an arm of the Republican National Committee and provided the committee a document with the names of Texas State House candidates and the amounts they were supposed to receive in donations.
The indictment, which included a copy of the check, came on the final day of the grand jury's term, following earlier indictments of TRMPAC, three political associates ? including the two indicted Wednesday ? several corporate donors and a Texas business association.

[Orchidomegaly]

I love to see powerful people land in prison. I don't know why

[IversonAli3]

Yea it's great, especially since it's Tom Delay, he's by far the most corrupt member of the government. He thinks he's so high and mighty, like the right hand of god, and there he is on his knees.
I can't wait until he gets made into some guy's b*tch in the state prison they say he would go to.

[howardmeis]

I bet he'll do 3 years, maybe months. Rich people don't go to prison, and if they do VERY short times. Look at oj, and martha. I would have more examples but I'm 14. But yeah, it's gret to see this guy in jail (even though I have no clue who he is).

[banana_sam]

Now I know that most of you don't care, but for the few who do, here's a nice piece of news. The most powerful republican in congress is most likely facing a prison term soon. He was indicted of a felony charge of trying to evade state laws.

It's illegal for corporations in Texas to donate money directly to a political party.
Tom DeLay has a office in Texas named the "Political Action Committee", he accepted donations to that company and then thought he'd be slick and proceeded to transfer the money from that account to a wing of the Republican national party. But he got caught!

Basically he's in deep sh*t, the proof against him is piled up extremely high, and he's resorted to accusing the Distrist Attorney of partisan zealotism. Everyone that knows something about politics knws this is a last ditch attempt to try to justify himself but he's failing miserably since it was a grand jury that indicted him, not the district attorney. He's already stepped down from his post in congress.
He's facing a minimum of 2-6 years in prison, and $10,000 in fines.

Today is a good day.:o

Beautiful.

[IversonAli3]

If he goes to jail for even 1 week he will be kicked out of Congress and in shame for the rest of his life. This is the first time in the history of the country that a top ranking congress member has even been indicted, so this guys already in the record books.

[Ikji]

If he goes to jail for even 1 week he will be kicked out of Congress and in shame for the rest of his life. This is the first time in the history of the country that a top ranking congress member has even been indicted, so this guys already in the record books.

Let us catch the rest of Congress now .

[Quagmire]

I bet **** will happen to him and if something does it will be half if not less of what it should be.

[bar_asir]

Now I know that most of you don't care...

You sir, are an imbecile.

There is a difference between listening/reading a single source of so called news then spewing it back as whole truth and nothing but the truth, and actually researching the topic you attempt to blabber about.

May I suggest to you to attempt to read the actual re-indictment then re-attempt at your simplistic drivel.

:D

[IversonAli3]

You sir, are an imbecile.

There is a difference between listening/reading a single source of so called news then spewing it back as whole truth and nothing but the truth, and actually researching the topic you attempt to blabber about.

May I suggest to you to attempt to read the actual re-indictment then re-attempt at your simplistic drivel.

:D

You humor me little boy, if you actually read anything I stated above, you would notice that everything I was saying was of my own opinion. I referred to multiple reliable sources, and they all gave my the same information.
You say I was,"..spewing it back as whole truth and nothing but the truth". I did no such thing you illiterate jackass, as I said above re-read my post.

Also, if you spent the time actually reading the bill of indictment youve posted, you would see that the information on it corresponds directly to the information I posted.
Just another angry and childish republican.:no:

[banana_sam]

...please spark into heated debate... please, im bored