Deliberations Have Begun in Case Against DeLay
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
NYT
AUSTIN, Tex. — Jurors began deliberating Monday in the money-laundering trial of Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader who was forced to resign five years ago after he was indicted here.
In closing arguments, prosecutors said Mr. DeLay had plotted with two political operatives in 2002 to illegally channel $190,000 in corporate donations to races for the Texas Legislature, passing the money through the Republican National Committee.
They portrayed him as an unscrupulous politician willing to circumvent a state ban on corporate money in campaigns in a quest to increase his power in Congress.
“This was a scheme to get corporate money that they knew could not be used in Texas and get it to these candidates,” a prosecutor, Beverly Mathews, said. “Tom DeLay was in on it.”
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NYT
AUSTIN, Tex. — Jurors began deliberating Monday in the money-laundering trial of Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader who was forced to resign five years ago after he was indicted here.
In closing arguments, prosecutors said Mr. DeLay had plotted with two political operatives in 2002 to illegally channel $190,000 in corporate donations to races for the Texas Legislature, passing the money through the Republican National Committee.
They portrayed him as an unscrupulous politician willing to circumvent a state ban on corporate money in campaigns in a quest to increase his power in Congress.
“This was a scheme to get corporate money that they knew could not be used in Texas and get it to these candidates,” a prosecutor, Beverly Mathews, said. “Tom DeLay was in on it.”
(More here.)
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