{"id":5250,"date":"2005-09-14T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2005-09-14T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T13:18:17","slug":"the-company-he-keeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-company-he-keeps\/","title":{"rendered":"The company he keeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If he were so inclined, Tom DeLay could very easily give up this career as a politician and open shop as a bail-bondsman. After all, it seems everyone the guy knows is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/09\/13\/AR2005091301724.html\">under indictment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Texas grand jury added new indictments yesterday to criminal charges against U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay&#8217;s top political fundraiser and the executive director of a Texas political action committee that DeLay organized to orchestrate a Republican takeover of the Texas House in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The grand jury alleged that James W. Ellis, who has raised money for DeLay&#8217;s Americans for a Republican Majority political action committee (ARMPAC) as well as for an offshoot known as Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), illegally contributed $190,000 in corporate funds to the Republican National Committee within 60 days of the 2002 state election.<\/p>\n<p>It also alleged that Ellis and John Colyandro, TRMPAC&#8217;s director at the time, conspired to deliver the funds to Terry Nelson, the Republican National Committee&#8217;s deputy chief of staff, and that they supplied Nelson with the names of Texas Republican House candidates who eventually received the funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This news comes just a week after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/shared\/tx\/legislature\/stories\/09\/9tab.html\">another DeLay-related indictment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Texas political action committee set up by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was charged by a state grand jury in Austin with accepting an illegal campaign contribution during legislative elections in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment charges DeLay&#8217;s PAC, Texans for a Republican Majority, with accepting $100,000 from the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care, an organization of nursing home providers. The grand jury also charged the Texas Association of Business, an Austin-based group, with making illegal contributions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which came about a year after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/06\/15\/politics\/main623277.shtml\">initial round of DeLay-related indictments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three consultants to a political action committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were indicted Tuesday by a Texas grand jury and charged with making illegal campaign contributions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite the criminal enterprise the Majority Leader is overseeing, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he were so inclined, Tom DeLay could very easily give up this career as a politician and open shop as a bail-bondsman. After all, it seems everyone the guy knows is currently under indictment. A Texas grand jury added new indictments yesterday to criminal charges against U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay&#8217;s top political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}