[Oblongata]

"In addition, lead attorney Dick DeGuerin and his two co-counsels filed separate motions seeking to quash both counts of the Oct. 3 money-laundering indictment against DeLay. They cited multiple reasons that the transactions at the heart of the alleged offense were not a violation of Texas law. The lawyers said, for example, that the law covered the "money laundering of funds" such as coins or currency, and that the money transfers cited in the indictment involved "checks" that were not "funds.""

This idiot of a journalist completely leaves out the fact that the applicable laws were not enacted until 2003. That is probably the strongest argument that a crime was not comitted.

[lowbridge]

This idiot of a journalist completely leaves out the fact that the applicable laws were not enacted until 2003.

The journalist is not an idiot. He knows what he left out of his story and we know why.

[Zeppo]

Wasn't the 'money laundering' charge filed after the original conspiracy charge was determined not to have been a crime in 2002?