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Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged money laundering, Republican National Committee, Tom Delay on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Judge Pat Priest has sentenced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to three years in prison on the conspiracy charge he was convicted of in November. Delay was also sentenced to five years in prison on the money laundering conviction but Judge Priest allowed DeLay to accept 10 years of probation instead of more prison time. [...]

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Texas Blog Roundup Nov 29, 2010

Posted in News Roundup, tagged Barnett shale, jeff wentworth, Tom Delay on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes you got your recommended allowance of tryptophan last week as it brings you the blog highlights.

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Tom Delay GUILTY

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged money laundering, public citizen texas, republican, Tom Delay on November 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Tom Delay has been convicted of money-laundering by a Travis County jury. After three days of deliberation in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay‘s corruption trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Tom DeLay‘s defense team, presented five witnesses over two days, resting its case last Thursday. This was in stark contrast to the prosecution’s case, [...]

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Delay jurors, take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Delay trial, money laundering, Pat Priest, Tom Delay on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As Public Citizen’s offices close for the Thanksgiving holiday, the jurors in the money-laundering and conspiracy trial of former U.S. House GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay had still not come back with a verdict.

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Delay trial winds down with closing arguments expected on Monday

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged Dick DeGuerin, houston chronicle, Republican National Committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, Texas, Tom Delay, Travis County Texas on November 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Testimony in Tom DeLay‘s money-laundering trial ended on Thursday, without the former House majority leader testifying and neither DeLay’s chief political aide, Jim Ellis, nor John Colyandro, who ran Texans for a Republican Majority, testified because they are being tried later as co-conspirators. Closing arguments are set for Monday and with any luck we will [...]

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Week two of the Delay trial underway

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Texas, Tom Delay on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Last week we wrote a little about what was happening in the early days of Tom Delay’s criminal trial. To recap and then sum up last week, in their opening statements, prosecutors said that Tom DeLay took part in a scheme to illegally channel corporate money into Texas legislative races in order to strengthen his [...]

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Public Citizen’s website or Tom Delay on trial yesterday?

Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, Good Government, tagged money laundering, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, republican, texans for public justice, Texas Ethics Commission, Tom Delay, Travis County Texas on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As the Tom Delay trial got underway, the State’s first two witnesses were Craig McDonald, a former Public Citizen Texas director and now the executive director for Texans for Public Justice, and Austin attorney Fred Lewis, both of whom the defense characterized as being from the left end of the political spectrum which they attempted [...]

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Delay’s trials and tribulations move forward

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged campaign contributions, democratic party, money laundering, republican, Texas, Tom Delay, Travis County Texas, trial on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A jury for Tom DeLay‘s money laundering trial was selected quickly last week, but only after the prosecution challenged whether the defense was striking African American jurors without good cause. The defense cut five African Americans from the jury because, in several instances, he said the would-be jurors appeared angry at him after he had [...]

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Tom DeLay’s trials and tribulations continue

Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged Dick DeGuerin, election fraud, Grand jury, Jack Abramoff, jury selection, social justice, Tom Delay, Travis County Texas, United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Jury selection begins today in former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay‘s felony conspiracy trial. In 2005, A Travis County Grand Jury indicted the former U.S. Congressman on charges he helped funnel $190,000 in illegal corporate donations into statewide elections in 2002. State law prohibits corporations from contributing to political campaigns. ### By promoting cleaner [...]

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The best video game since World of Warcraft- Redistricting: The Game!!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged independent redistricting commission, redistricting, Texas, Tom Delay on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Texas faces the possibility of real reform on how we draw our districts next time around, hopefully preventing the repeat of the debacle from last time around when a partisan agenda prompted a walkout by members of the Legislature. So, while doing some research about redistricting reform this morning I stumbled upon a “gem” of [...]

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