Clean Up Texas Politics | Rick Casey: Money Found Laundered in the Fine Print
Clean Up Texas Politics | Rick Casey: Money Found Laundered in the Fine Print: "f I'm John Colyandro, I'm suffering today from a lack of sleep last night.
An Austin judge ruled Tuesday that I will have to stand trial for felony money laundering charges, the kind that could land me in prison for years. He was not persuaded by my lawyers' arguments that it wasn't money laundering because we dealt in checks, not cash.
We're appealing the decision, but it looks like we're going to have to persuade a jury that what we did wasn't money laundering.
What I know that few other people have noticed is that another judge has already found, in a civil case, that in effect, it was money laundering.
Even worse, we can't attack that judge as politically-motivated, the way we've attacked Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle.
Why? Because my side handpicked the judge.
Colyandro is the executive director of Tom DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, or TRMPAC. That's the group that raised $600,000 in corporate money in 2002 to help elect a cadre of Republican legislators who would fulfill DeLay's wish for a second round of congressional redistricting."
An Austin judge ruled Tuesday that I will have to stand trial for felony money laundering charges, the kind that could land me in prison for years. He was not persuaded by my lawyers' arguments that it wasn't money laundering because we dealt in checks, not cash.
We're appealing the decision, but it looks like we're going to have to persuade a jury that what we did wasn't money laundering.
What I know that few other people have noticed is that another judge has already found, in a civil case, that in effect, it was money laundering.
Even worse, we can't attack that judge as politically-motivated, the way we've attacked Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle.
Why? Because my side handpicked the judge.
Colyandro is the executive director of Tom DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, or TRMPAC. That's the group that raised $600,000 in corporate money in 2002 to help elect a cadre of Republican legislators who would fulfill DeLay's wish for a second round of congressional redistricting."
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