DA says case against DeLay was clean
Web Posted: 11/17/2005 12:00 AM CST
Lisa Sandberg
Express-News Staff Writer
AUSTIN — State prosecutors Wednesday denied that they acted improperly in building a felony money laundering case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay.
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Earle said in the subpoena that he was particularly interested in contributions, correspondence, memos and transaction approval documentation by DeLay's national political committee Americans for a Republican Majority to Rely on Your Own Beliefs Fund and the Missouri Republican Party's nonfederal account.
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Last month, the Associated Press reported that DeLay, a Republican congressman from Sugar Land, deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to Blunt.
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A pretrial hearing on several defense motions, including a request to move the trial out of liberal Travis County and into DeLay's heavily Republican home district of Fort Bend County is scheduled for Tuesday before Senior Judge Pat Priest of San Antonio.
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