Uh...Mr. Earle has retained me...as his spokesmoose. Mr. Earle is not available....in the state...in hiding.....ooooh. Where's the squirrel?
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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...that will sink Earle
LOL ! ! !
The 'memo-gate' moments keep coming and coming. Kinko's must be doing one hell of a lot of business these days.
'List-gate' perhaps?
Oh, who needs a piffling detail like that anyway.
OOOPsie!
A little something we like to call..PROOF! Put some ice on that Ronnie,
Your friend Bill
They got it a Kinko's. I would think that Texas has rules of evidence.
Uh...Mr. Earle has retained me...as his spokesmoose. Mr. Earle is not available....in the state...in hiding.....ooooh. Where's the squirrel?
>>>"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"<<<
Bad example. McCarthy was generally correct in his claims; and his crusade was not political, but one of honoring his oath of office. Anyone who takes an oath to protect and defend the constitution must be an enemy of communism, by default.
LOL ! This is unreal.
The guy gets an indictment without having the evidence he claims to have.
I wonder how the MSM is going to spin this one. This should be interesting to watch.
I have an old Windows 98 computer in the closet. Call me Ronnie!
Brit had it on Fox earlier. He did a real good job not to LOL during the report. I think I did hear a few snickers, though. :-)
He was right. The Venona files gleaned from the Russian intelligence archives showed he was "mostly" right. The State Dept. was full of Commies.
But he made the same mistake the Austin, TX "Gang that couldn't shoot straight" has. You don't claim to have evidence you can't produce or that doesn't exist.
WHO???
I thought that it 57.... D'OH! That was James Gregory, in "The Manchurian Candidate", becuase he liked Heinz Ketchup...
No... It was J. Edgar Hoover, becuse he liked Ketchup on his Cottage Cheese.... Or was that Nixon?
Dang it!!!... It was typed up on someone's LapTop, because they didn't have access to an IBW Selectic Typewriter!!!!
Earle hasn't got a clue... Or a prayer!
Jack.
On Brit's show they said Earle doesn't have the real list, but they have somebody who saw it. LOL Is this for real?
"If the list is missing, you must be dismissing!"
(Denny Crane: "I like nature. Don't talk about the environment.")
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