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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
DeLay Admits to Hiding Contributions
Already under indictment on charges of money laundering and conspiracy, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay today admitted to failing to follow House ethics standards, as the AP's Larry Margasak reports.
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.When this type of infraction occurs, it is usually meaningless; in most of these cases, the Representative's staff simply forgot to fill out all of the right forms. But when these problems show up over and over again, as they have with DeLay, serious questions must be raised about the Representative's fitness to serve. And if recent polling is any indicator, DeLay's constitutents are doing just that.
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.
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