Wednesday, July 13, 2005 DeLay's Ally in Deep Hot Water TX Judge Bob Perkins ruled today that John Colyandro should stand trial on felony charges of money laundering for his role in operating Tom DeLay's PAC (Texans for a Repub Majority) in 2002. Colyandro and Jim Ellis, another DeLay associate, were initially indicted in 9/04 by TX District Attorney Ronnie Earle on charges of violating state election laws by moving $190,000 in corporate donations from TRMPAC into the campaign coffers of 7 GOP state House candidates. Corporate contributions to state candidates are illegal in TX. Lawyers for Colyandro and Ellis had asked that the charges against the 2 men be dropped, arguing that TX law on money laundering relates to cash transactions, and the money in question was done by check. Didja get that: the defense is that since the money was in stacks of checks rather than stacks of cash, it's okay & legal. Judge Perkins disagreed with the argument: "If you're saying that all the funds I ever received were checks, well, in my opinion, funds would include checks." I'm sure Perkins will be smeared as yet another Liberal activist judge, b/c God knows, TX elects Liberal activists, huh? Naw, just soul-less pricks. |