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Posted on 10/14/2005 9:14:31 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior
They don't have list of candidates at the heart of the laundering case, just a 'similar' one
AUSTIN - Travis County prosecutors admitted Friday they lack physical proof of a list of Republican candidates that is at the heart of money-laundering indictments against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and two of his associates.
The list is key to prosecutors being able to prove that corporate money that could not be legally spent on Texas candidates was specifically exchanged at the national level for donations that legally could be spent on Republican candidates for the Texas House.
Indictments against DeLay, Jim Ellis and John Colyandro state that Ellis gave "a document that contained the names of several candidates for the Texas House" to a Republican National Committee official in 2002 in a scheme to swap $190,000 in restricted corporate money for the same amount of money from individuals that could be legally used by Texas candidates.
But prosecutors said Friday in court that they only had a "similar" list and not the one allegedly received by then-RNC Deputy Director Terry Nelson.
A lawyer for Ellis said prosecutors' inability to produce the list mentioned in the indictments is on par with the tactics used by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the communist witch hunts of the 1950s.
"I'll tell you what I think about this list. In the 1950s, a man named McCarthy claimed to have a list of 200 communists in the State Department, and he didn't," said J.D. Pauerstein, a lawyer for Jim Ellis, the director of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority. "They (prosecutors) don't know what list they're talking about, even though they specify it in their indictment."
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
So I take it you're not familiar with the Venona Papers?
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Pls tell us.
These Dims (like Gore (think airlines and foreign campaign contributions) and Kurintong (Vince's Swiss trips, Freeh-exposed Saudi shakedowns, etc.) and now Earle) absolutely have down pat the background game of causing the tables to be lifted so as to let the money slide into their own pockets.
HF
I'm not sure how he passed the bar exam.
Mary Mapes, get thee to the nearest Kinkos!
Fake, but accurate.
"Would this be cause for dismisal?"
I can't say but it will put a crimp in the prosecution and, hopefuly, lead to a charge of prosecutorial misconduct!
GIve them enough time and Dan Rather can produce the document for them........
DeLay should quickly become a Democrat and then the MSM will defend him. Otherwise, only the charges will be the "talking points".
1) It's not the evidence that counts, it's the seriousness of the charge.
2) It's not the real list, but it's at least factually related.
Leni
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Violation of prosecutorial ethics. I hope Earle gets hung, figuratively speaking.
One riot - one Texas Ranger.
One rotten DA - one Texas Ranger (to throw Earle in jail)
As the saying goes - "fake but accurate"...
Not to worry, Dan R. is on the case (i.e. seeing as how Dan's daughter and Ronnie Earle are well connected to each other in Austin DU politics)
The Republicans need to reinstate Delay immediately and call Earle for what he is. This has just been a farce from the getgo.
Of course the prosecutors do not have any hard evidence to back up their money laundering charges against Delay. Of course they have a "similar" list of Republican names whom they claim wre invloved in this crime, but not the original one. Of course the whole case was manufactured by politically motivated people out to get the leaders of the Republican Party. I hope Tom Delay and his legal team continue to pursue legal action against those involved in this trumped up charge.
;>)
I wondered how long it would take for someone to post that Rush saying. Did you see that crook getting into the elevator on yesterday's local news and giving his "No comment" as the door was closing???
I am still hoping the Travis DA doesn't meet the deadline for this -
Landmark Files FOIA Request with DA Earle
filed on October 4, 2005 and the Texas Rangers arrest old ronnie and his crooked office staff.
See, Ronnie? That's what you get for inviting Sandy Burglar over for dinner.
That most of what McCarthy was saying, was proven correct by Venona.
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