"Evidence? EVIDENCE??? We don't need no steenkin' evidence!"
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."
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No...from 2002. But still...it's pretty funny.
Fake but accurate BTTT.
"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.
Jim Rob sums this up very well: "It may be a forgery, but the info is essentially true. Bwawawawwawawawa!
2 posted on 10/14/2005 9:18:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Calling Mr. Buckhead. Calling Mr. Buckhead. There is a call from Free Republic for a Mr. Buckhead.
" 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."
Then why indict??
Earle is so transparent.
Calling all Kinkos. Calling all Kinkos. Documents needed. Stat.
It wasn't Shakespeare?
They should open a "FBA" library."
They got one right near there:
The "LBJ"
They found out that she called someone named "George Glass" and spoke for 23 minutes about some secret plan to give illegal money to Italian Republican candidates called operation "pizza date".
The investigation goes on.
or maybe the documents are in the pumpkin
Is Hear-say allowed in a Grand Jury?
Ssssshhhh!!!! For Pete's sake, don't tell'em.
I would think it will get face time when the judge throws the indictments out with extreme prejudice.
So how could they get a Grand Jury to indict?
"Evidence? EVIDENCE??? We don't need no steenkin' evidence!"
LOL! Ain't it the truth!
I really can prove the moon is made of cheese, if I just had a piece of it. But I do, however, have a piece of cheese quite similar to what the moon is made of, so you must believe me.
These people must truly believe that all Americans are as stupid as their voter base.
"what matters is the seriousness of the charge... not the nature of the evidence." Kennedy aka the "swimmer"
"If the list is missing, you must be dismissing!"
Fabulous!
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