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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:29 PM
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DeLay Admits To Accounting Irregularities
Edited on Wed Oct-26-05 02:31 PM by NNN0LHI
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBNUZLY9FE.html

DeLay Acknowledges Failure to Report Defense Fund Donations

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Tom DeLay failed to comply with House requirements that he disclose all contributions to a defense fund that pays his legal bills, the Texas Republican acknowledged to House officials.

He wrote officials that $20,850 contributed in 2000 and 2001 was not reported anywhere. Another $17,300 was included in the defense fund's quarterly report but not in DeLay's 2000 annual financial disclosure report - a separate requirement. Other donations were understated as totaling $2,800, when the figure should have been $4,450.

It was during that period that DeLay was the subject of several House ethics investigations.

DeLay, R-Texas, stepped aside as House majority leader - at least temporarily - after he was indicted on a felony charge Sept. 28 in a Texas campaign fund-raising investigation. He has since been charged a second time in the same case.


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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:30 PM
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1. "mistakes were made"?
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:33 PM
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2. Gee, that was fast
We went from "groundless, baseless accusations" to "Oops" at warp speed. How do you look in jump suit orange, Smiley Tom?
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politicaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:52 PM
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12. Warp speed indeed, a rip in the space time continuum more like it...
numbers don't lie, but Tom does.

BTW - I doubt they have orange jump suits in Congressman camp.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:35 PM
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3. Ya, ya....Capone said the same thing
"Accounting irregularities" my ass...

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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:38 PM
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4. "The Rule of Law" ----> "Minor Technicality"
Besides, Your Honor, Mr. DeLay is not an accountant...
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:39 PM
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5. Personal Responsibility has never been a Repub Virtue
Not that I've seen. From asswipe Reagan on down.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:39 PM
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6. LOL!!! Pay back Tom!!!
:bounce:
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:39 PM
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7. Oh, the "I'm not a crook, just bad at math," defense.
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akarnitz Donating Member (303 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:41 PM
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8. Gambling? In Casablanca?
I'm shocked. Shocked!
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:42 PM
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9. So, if I walk into a bank, and rob it
Edited on Wed Oct-26-05 02:43 PM by mtnester
can I say "I misspoke to the teller, what I really meant was...?"
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:46 PM
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10. He forgot the dough he spent at the wh?re house.
Edited on Wed Oct-26-05 02:56 PM by Hubert Flottz
Jim Trafficant is laughing his ass off at you about now Tom!



EDIT...Here's what Traficant is doing time for...


Rep. Traficant Charged With Bribery

Snip

The government's probe is believed to have examined whether Traficant
broke tax laws or House rules by accepting free use of a Chevrolet Corvette and the gift of an Avanti luxury car, as well as the price Traficant paid for construction of a pole barn on a farm that he once owned and where he still keeps horses.

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/traficant.htm


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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:49 PM
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11. What's really important here!!!
He's got a purdy mouth!!
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 02:59 PM
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13. Important to old "Big" Bubba...
Bubba is gonna' be in HOG heaven when all of his new roomies get moved in!
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:24 PM
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14. This criminalization of bad math must stop.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:26 PM
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15. Oh you poor thing, Tom. Being a congressman is hard, real hard.
You dumbfuck.
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