Another LIEberal judge, another bogus charge overturned.
Posted on 01/10/2011 12:34:15 PM PST by Hawk720
judge has ordered U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
The sentence comes after a jury in November convicted DeLay on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay was once one of the most powerful men in U.S. politics, ascending to the No. 2 job in the House of Representatives.
The former Houston-area congressman had faced up to life in prison. His attorneys asked for probation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Are there charges pending against these other groups or people? I’m not saying there should be, but I keep hearing he “conspired” to “launder money” with others, but if charges were only brought against him, that tells me it’s all political and bogus. The news said his appeal could last years, which will cost him millions if true, the average person could never afford to mount the defense needed to fight what I think is an unjust conviction.
Wait — is fight now an incendiary word? Am I “allowed” to still say that?
Are there charges pending against these other groups or people? I’m not saying there should be, but I keep hearing he “conspired” to “launder money” with others, but if charges were only brought against him, that tells me it’s all political and bogus. The news said his appeal could last years, which will cost him millions if true, the average person could never afford to mount the defense needed to fight what I think is an unjust conviction.
Wait — is fight now an incendiary word? Am I “allowed” to still say that?
Sorry, I left out the link to the Wiki info...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay_campaign_finance_investigation
what Delay did, was clearly illegal,
and he knew it was..
what is/was, his defense claiming?
..........
bogus evidence
biased judge
biased jury
biased prosecutor
law not constitutional
something else
.........
IMO, he got what he deserved
Are there charges pending against these other groups or people?
Dig around the net for James [Jim] Ellis and John Colyandro both associates of Delays who have been indicted but not gone to trial. Some mention of them are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay_campaign_finance_investigation
Another LIEberal judge, another bogus charge overturned.
Thank you, that’s what I was looking for to substantiate what I remembered. /Salute, and thanks for the Wiki link also.
Exactly. Who gets to decide what the questions are to the jury? My experience on a jury resulted in a verdict that seemed destined because of the questions to answer.
Hopefully, the appeals court is less Austin Lib Partisan.
Chump Change Charlie (Rangel) said DeLay had it coming.
..........I’m rolling on the floor laughing my a.. off! You are so correct! I live here! Reportedly, Travis County was the only county to vote against secession in the Civil War..........that’s how deep Austin liberalism is. Austin makes San Francisco, on some days, look like a cauldron of right wing conservatives! If there is a jury pool in Austin, it’s liberal! Period! And end of story! Ronnie Earle knew two things: One, if he survived summary judgment he needed the right judge and he made sure he got that. Two: If he got past summary judgment, he could get himself a liberal jury and a conviction!
So what your saying, Austin is a liberal as San Francisco, not California.
Thanks for that clarification.
And, you’re extremely ignorant to the case/verdict, yet here you are commenting on it, and trying to defend the actions of the the leftist DA and judge.
Why would that be, dragnet2?
What did he deserve? Tell me the details about the actual verdict, and not your n00b/DU thoughts.
"Its use was justified, Priest said, because the crime for which DeLay was convicted was itself novel. DeLay was accused of approving the transfer of $190,000 in corporate funds to the Republican National Committee's coffers in Washington and a return of the same amount in checks to state candidates."
“Novel use of money-laundering statue meant to target bank robbers, drug dealers and criminal fraud”??? "Novel crime"??? If what DeLay did was so illegal, why couldn’t they get him on a regular reading of a law meant for campaign finance? DeLay was supposed to figure out the novel reading of a law that was not meant for campaign finance before the partisan prosecutor invented this reading and applied it to campaign finance? As far as I’m concerned, Austin is a Stalinist police state. Remember how that waitress called the police on Bush’s daughters, not because they were underage drinking, which happens all the time without anyone calling the police, but because they were the children of a hated Republican.
Where the hell are the Republicans?
at that time.
it was illegal for corporations to donate
to candidates to the Texas state legislature.
Delay would do something like...
if a corp. donates $3000 to Delay’s pac,
Delay’s pac donates $2994 to the Tx candidate.
do you really want Republicans doing that?
That is exactly what PACS do. If pacs were illegal in Taxas, why weren’t they illegal in Texas?
That’s RACIST!!! /s
Had Tom Delay been of the brown skinned derivative, he’d have been let off. In fact it would have never even gotten any attention for there to be a trial.
Appeals?
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