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Thursday, September 08, 2005

BREAKING NEWS ~ Texas indicts DeLay PAC, business group for campaign contribution violations
Jeannie Shawl at 1:03 PM ET

[JURIST] A Texas grand jury has indicted a political action committee formed by US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay [official website] and a Texas business group on charges relating to campaign contributions for DeLay's 2002 congressional campaign, though DeLay himself was not charged. Texans for a Republican Majority was charged with illegally accepting a $100,000 political contribution, and the Texas Association of Business has been charged with unlawful political advertising, unlawful contributions to a political committee, and unlawful expenditures. The Austin American-Statesman has more.






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