Tom DeLay going broke as legal bills climb

[kpete]

Legal Bills Eat Into Tom DeLay's Campaign Cash

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday July 18, 2006

The costs of legal defense relating to investigations and indictments are draining Tom DeLay of money he raised for his cancelled re-election campaign, RAW STORY has learned.

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An excerpt of the subscribers-only story is included below.

Ex-Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has now paid out more than $1.7 million in legal bills resulting from a pair of investigations over the past two years, including close to a half-million dollars in the second quarter of 2006 as he was retiring from the House.

DeLay used what he at the time considered to be leftover campaign funds to pay off some of his legal bills, which was his biggest expenditure during the quarter, and helped slash his cash-on-hand balance by more than half and leaving him with just $641,000 in the campaign account.

With legal bills still mounting — DeLay faces a local trial later this year on campaign finance charges and the probe of ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff continues — he was originally expected to use all his leftover funds to pay a legal team that now includes lawyers from nine different firms.

However, a federal judge ruled earlier this month that DeLay’s name must stay on the ballot. The case is being heard in two weeks by an appellate court, leaving the very real possibility of a DeLay re-election campaign effort — albeit one that would restart at a sizable cash disadvantage.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/DeLays_Legal_Bills_Eat_Into_Campaign_0718.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. Oh I'm so sad to hear this!!

Poor tom. Maybe the christian patriots at free republic can have a bake sale for their hero.

Gosh I guess when you dabble in crime, those legal bills just get bigger and bigger.

[Kookaburra]

2. "Instant karma gonna get you..."

Couldn't happen to a rottener guy.

[displacedtexan]

3. All Together Now...

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[bullimiami]

4. he will never live as anything but a rich white man.

when he deserves a cardboard box, white bread and water for the rest of his crooked days.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Tom DeLay eats cockroaches

[xchrom]

6. tom delay sucks cat shit.

[lonestarnot]

7. He hasn't found time to pencil anyone out of more.... yet.

[leesa]

8. Surely there are openings in the pest control profession...

after all, it's a booming economy with an over-abundance of well paying jobs.

[catmandu57]

9. Turn about

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy, well, it could, I'd like to see every pukie go broke defending themselves. Funny how they like lawyers when they need them isn't it?

[Mist]

10. And funny how Rethugs seem to need high-priced legal talent so much

more often than the rest of us. Big crimes = big legal bills. You think they'd learn...

As for the Bugman's legal budget problems::cry: :sarcasm:

[Canuckistanian]

11. A TEAM of NINE different law firms?

Jeebus, he must hold a world record for the most thoroughly lawyered-up human being in history.

And I thought all those charges agagainst him were just baseless lies. :sarcasm:

[lovuian]

12. Now you know what Clinton felt... welcome to somebody using

your own tactics on you!!! Delay is a ruined man... for helping Bush...