Yikes. What did he REALLY do, or is this just a Kangaroo Kourt prosecution? Did he get prosecuted for somethig most DC politicos do?
He became a powerful Republican. He was charged by a Dem prosecutor and tried in a Dem county.
Delay was convicted of a crime that wasn’t a crime when he committed it. The prosecutor, Ronnie Earle had a personal vendetta against Delay and didn’t give up until he got a conviction. Earle shopped grand juries until he got one that would carry out the conviction. This was a political witch hunt and the bad guy won for now.
Its total BS. A Democrat judge convicts him of a crime that didn’t even exist when he transferred donations from one account to another. It will be thrown out on appeal.
Personally, I don’t think Traficant did anything that 90% of the rest of them don’t do.
Trouble was, Traficant went after the high-rollers and p’d some of them off...
“What did he REALLY do, or is this just a Kangaroo Kourt prosecution?”
I heard he did something that was illegal BEFORE it was illegal, but I could be wrong.