{"id":5430,"date":"2005-10-03T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5430.html"},"modified":"2005-10-03T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T23:22:10","slug":"another-day-another-indictment-charge-against-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/another-day-another-indictment-charge-against-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another indictment charge against DeLay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step away from the computer for an hour and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/03\/AR2005100300190.html\">look what happens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Texas grand jury indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering Monday, less than a week after another grand jury leveled a conspiracy charge that forced DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban on corporate campaign contributions by funneling the money through a political action committee to the Republican National Committee in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC then sent back like amounts to distribute to Texas candidates in 2002, the indictment alleges.<\/p>\n<p>The new indictment came hours after DeLay&#8217;s attorneys filed a request to dismiss the case. That request argued that the conspiracy charge was based on a law that was not effective until 2003, the year after the alleged money transfers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As it happens, that claim about the 2003 law appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/topstory\/3380481\">bogus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, DeLay&#8217;s legal problems just continue to get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step away from the computer for an hour and look what happens. A Texas grand jury indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering Monday, less than a week after another grand jury leveled a conspiracy charge that forced DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader. Both indictments accuse DeLay [&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-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","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=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}