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say guys i mean martin and this is breaking the sad here's another tom de lay you know the former republican house majority leader had to resign in two thousand and five after being indicted on federal money laundering charges on a rare window for the justice system de lay was convicted in two thousand and ten for illegally funny funneling corporate money to texas candidates and was sent to three years in jail now because of a lengthy appeals process delay has managed to stay out of prison and yesterday a three judge panel made sure he'll never see time behind bars that's right a texas appeals court entirely overturned his sentence acquitted him of all charges but don't worry the two republican judges that voted for the acquittal had an awesome reason to overturn his sentence in a majority opinion one of them wrote quote the evidence shows that the defendants were attempting to comply with the election code limitations on corporate contributions as long as the lay was attempting to comply with the law while legally helping the g.o.p. control the texas government that's a ok now it's estimate

state guys i mean martin and this is breaking the set of other tom de lay you know the former republican house majority leader who had to resign in two thousand and five after being indicted on federal money laundering charges on a rare window for the justice system de lay was convicted in two thousand and ten for illegally funny funneling corporate money to texas candidates and was sent to three years in jail now because of a lengthy appeals process delay has managed to stay out of prison and yesterday a three judge panel made sure he'll never see time behind bars that's right a texas appeals court entirely overturned his sentence acquitted him of all charges but don't worry the two republican judges that voted for the acquittal had an awesome reason to overturn his sentence in a majority opinion one of them wrote quote the evidence shows that the defendants were attempting to comply with the election code limitations on corporate contributions as long as the lay was attempting to comply with the law while legally helping the g.o.p. control the texas government that's a ok now it's esti

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you tell me a little bit sure i mean. who was convicted by the way there were two other people along with tom de lay did exactly what rightwhat he did pled guilty to it and are now serving time for it and you also have of course tom de lay himself. being what he did and but hiding it at the time if it was perfectly legal why would he hide it so jack avram all of classic lobbyist convicted of similar kind of thing he's on the other end he's raising the money to help his clients get what they want to congress to pay off people like tom de lay it's no wonder they work very closely together well it certainly is amazing what has happened we'll have to see if they're able to appeal and be successful but i do appreciate your time mark levine host of inside scoop and a former congressional attorney thank you so much thank you so much well that does it for now for more on the stories we covered today go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america and check out our web site r t dot com forward slash usa can also follow me on twitter at america david see right back here at five. technology innovation all the developments around rus

ignore this law so he pretty much got off on a technicality and mark i know that you worked on the hell when tom de laywas really rising to power in the republican party for people that don't know can you talk about the kind of and when you're yelled at by the congress in the most powerful members of congress in the last thirty years tom de lay was called the hammer and he was called that because he knew how to hammer his way into authority he was second in charge of the house at the time as speaker denny hastert was technically in charge but everyone knew the real power lay in tom de lay in his power was that he could corral all the republicans to do whatever he wanted them to do it was supporting president bush on something all the republicans that claim to hate spending now all the voted for massive spending in those days and the way to do it was he used his power over money to make sure that candidates that supported his agenda will get lots and lots of money as it didn't would not and i remember very clearly robin hayes a i don't think he's in congress anymore but he's a congressman from the easte