Monday, October 03, 2005

The Hammered (Redux)

CNN is reporting this afternoon that Ronnie Earle has struck again, this time bringing the real heat to DeLay with a grand jury indictment on money laundering charges.

Yeah... the schadenfreude is running a little thick around here this afternoon...

DeLay's legal pimp is saying "he hopes for a trial by the end of the year..."

whatever...

mojo sends

Update 1.0: If you want, Comrade Joshua has a pretty good take on this second indictment. Money shot: It looks like there might be a technicality surrounding the effective date of the conspiracy statute, so this might be a bit bet hedging, according to the Austin Statesman. But the Houston Chronicle piece reports it a little different in an interview with a UT law prof who seems to think the timing on the statute is not the "get-out-of-jail-free" card that the thug's law pimps seem to think...

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