LIFE IN PRISON FOR DELAY!!!! THIS IS THE TIPPING POINT!

Today's new charges, charges of MONEY LAUNDERING *and* CONSPIRACY TO MONEY LAUNDER carry LIFE IN PRISON as penalties...

I wonder if the presiding judge will waive the ARREST WARRENT this time!!!???

This guy is going to bring THE ENTIRE HOUSE OF CARDS DOWN BABY!

I forgot all about that. Thanks for the reminder. I betcha no deal.

Well, you know how the Repukes are about spending money! Since they love killing so much, why don't they volunteer DeLay for punishment by firing squad.

You made me snarf tea all over my Mac!

:spray:

:spray: :popcorn: :rofl:

Doesn't he look like an old hunting dog?

Cause he looks like the South end of a northbound horse.

-Hoot

I'm starting to worry about you! :rofl:

So, logically speaking, shouldn't he want the same punishment for himself? I mean, he should be consitent in his stances, shouldn't he?

and it is ahem personal you know

You kill, people, see, whether they be real crooks like DeLay, or innocent people on Death Row, or Iraqi babies, or old people in New Orleans. Death is good! Up is down! Culture of Life! Woo hoo! Killing is FUN!

Like it matters.

see if I am not right

what dem has apologized to/for DeLay?

In a unanimous decision in the consolidated cases of Whitfield v. U.S. (docket 03-1293) and Hall v. U.S. (03-1294), the Court ruled that a money laundering conspiracy count does not require proof of an overt act to further the plot. The ruling, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, relied primarily upon the Court's decision in U.S. v. Shabani in 1994. The Shabani decision found there was no need to show an overt act to prove a conspiracy to commit drug crimes. That law and the money laundering conspiracy statute involve nearly identical language, the Court noted.

The law at issue can be traced back to the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. It criminalizes the intentional transfer of money from unlawful activity, and transactions involving property that was obtained during a crime if the value is more than $10,000. As originally enacted, neither of those sections included a conspiracy provision, so the government relied on a general conspiracy statute. But, in 1992, Congress wrote into the Money Laundering Control Act a provision making it a crime to conspire to commit any offense under that Act. That was the provision at issue in Tuesday's ruling.

In the Court's prior rulings in Shabani, as well as in earlier rulings (Singer v. U.S. in 1945 and Nash v. U.S. in 1913), the Court had ruled that, where Congress omitted from a conspiracy law any language expressly requiring an overt act, the Court would not read such a requirement into the statute. That concept controlled the ruling Tuesday, O'Connor wrote.
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/009284.html

Thanks satya for posting this earlier.

WOW. Tom is SO COOKED... anyone got a fork?

"Slip, sliding away", Tommy!

is until christmas eve, 2008.

the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.

:mad:

are you saying he'll get a minimum sentence? Isn't that 20 years for money laundering?

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/PE/content/htm/pe.003.00.000012.00.htm

Money Laundering of the amount that DeLay is guilty of is a FIRST DEGREE FELONY... here is the sentencing guideline:

These are not federal offenses... Bush can only pardon people for federal crimes.

DeLay would have to be pardoned by the Texas Governor's PROBATE COUNCIL and they don't pardon people very easily... and you have to serve time in prison before getting a pardon in Texas (I already looked it up).

I have been reading that tonight here. I was just giving my opinion of what the other poster was refering to.

well ppl are being confused because the information being posted in this thread is about federal offenses, not texas state offenses, the money laundering act of 1986 is most certainly a federal law

i would need to see some evidence that the state of texas hands down 20 yr sentences for money laundering, i'd be mighty surprised

i imagine he'll get a fine or something if convicted

when poppy smirk pre-emptively pardoned cappy and his whole i-c crew.

PRISON! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

:popcorn: I'm ready for the show! BRING IT ON! :bounce:

Do you have the statute on hand?

a post here in the last couple of days with the legal info.

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