Stroll down memory lane: Tom DeLay's 1994 perjury

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I just brought this up in another thread. Since I've seen little to no discussion of this matter at DU over the years, I thought I'd repost it in a new thread.

Summary: in 1994, DeLay either lied under oath to escape liability in a civil case or lied in his sworn financial statements to Congress.

I recall that The New Republic and/or Salon ran articles about this during the Clinton impeachment mess. I couldn't find those articles just now, but I did turn up a relevant article from the New York Times. Excerpts:

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The House majority whip, Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, a driving force behind the effort to impeach President Clinton on charges of lying under oath, himself gave a deposition five years ago that is being challenged as untruthful.

At the time, DeLay was being sued by a former business partner who maintained that the congressman and a third man had conspired to cut him out of his ownership share in a Texas company, Albo Pest Control. In the deposition, DeLay swore that he was no longer an officer of the company and had not been for two or three years.

But DeLay had filed congressional financial disclosure forms saying that he was actually the company's chairman during those years.

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The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed sum in 1994. Any perjury charge in the case could not be brought now, given a three-year statute of limitations in Texas. DeNisco said that had he known of the discrepancy at the time, he would have referred the matter to the Harris County district attorney.

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Source:
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/020699impeach-delay.html

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1. Apparently this is more widely known than I'd thought

I take the lack of response as good news. :)