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Edited on Thu Sep-29-05 02:24 PM by Talismom
As seen on Tompaine.com, from Bloomberg.com:
DeLay Charges May Be Overshadowed by Abramoff Probe (Update1) ListenListen
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Tom DeLay, the highest- ranking U.S. House leader ever to face criminal charges, called his indictment yesterday ``one of the weakest, most baseless'' in American history. Even if he's right, bigger legal battles may lie ahead.
The larger legal challenge for DeLay may center on a task force led by the U.S. Justice Department that is investigating Jack Abramoff, the indicted lobbyist who boasted of his relationship with DeLay.
Even as DeLay faces the charge in Texas state court in connection with corporate donations that allegedly were used to help fund the Republican takeover of the state legislature in 2002, ``he is inevitably also going to be under investigation by federal prosecutors'' in the Abramoff matter, said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a Washington watchdog group that has criticized DeLay.
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`It's taken a while and we can't undo the 2002 elections, but we can hold those who cheated in those elections accountable,'' said Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice, an Austin-based group that has called for a special prosecutor to investigate DeLay. ``There's some satisfaction that the criminal process is working its way out.''
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a9lNJXEQkz14&refer=top_world_news
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