DeLay's PAC's in trouble!

The eight companies involved in the indictment include Cracker Barrel, Sears, Bacardi, and Westar Energy.

A Travis County grand jury on Tuesday indicted three top lieutenants of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and eight corporate donors for their efforts on behalf of DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority during the 2002 elections.

While the felony indictments put the two-year controversy on DeLay's doorstep, the investigation also inched toward Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland. Craddick was not indicted, but it was disclosed for the first time that he accepted a $100,000 corporate check on behalf of the Republican political action committee from a nursing home alliance that was indicted.
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The scope and number of indictments stunned defense attorneys, who had expected only a handful of charges, if any at all. The investigation will continue, and the criminal trials could overshadow any attempt by the Legislature to redefine laws prohibiting corporate money being spent on political activity except in limited circumstances. Those laws have been on the books for decades, the result of populist fears against the financial power of corporations.

I posted about this investigation in February. I'm amazed that Ronnie Earle was actually able to pull this off. Yay!

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