Grand Jury Issues New Subpoenas for DeLay

[babylonsister]

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(cal04's find)

A Texas grand jury asked Thursday for all e-mail sent and received in 2002 by three indicted associates of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay as part of an investigation into an alleged campaign finance scheme.

The latest subpoenas request correspondence to and from e-mail addresses belonging to John Colyandro, Jim Ellis and Warren RoBold. The grand jury did not ask DeLay to provide e-mails.

Colyandro was executive director of Texas for a Republican Majority, a political action committee founded by DeLay. Ellis runs DeLay's national fund-raising committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, and Robold is a Republican fundraiser in Washington.

Prosecutors say DeLay and his associates funneled corporate money given to the former House majority leader's committees to an arm of the Republican National Committee, which sent it back to seven GOP candidates for the Texas Legislature. Texas law prohibits corporate money from being used directly in a political campaign.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DELAY_INDICTMENT_SUBPOENAS?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[sonias]

1. Bring them on!

Here are two more handy links to keep up with the scandal.

The Texas Observer has the best analysis of the law, the crimes and the evil doers. They've linked their really good stories over the past three years on their front page.
http://www.texasobserver.org

Then our local rag Aus Am Statesman (you need a free on line sub or use bugmetnot.com login)
http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/elxpacs/index.html

There is a good time-line on that same AAS summary page too
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/metro/elxpacs/100405_delay_timeline.html

Sonia