The DeLay File, Part I.
Sept. 21, 2004: Three DeLay associates are indicted by a Travis County, Texas, grand jury looking into allegations that corporate campaign funds were illegally funneled to Republican candidates for state office. DeLay has not been charged, but the investigation is continuing.
Sept. 30, 2004: DeLay is admonished by the House ethics committee for offering political support to the son of then-Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) to succeed his father in Congress if Smith changed his 'no' vote on the Medicare prescription drug bill.
Oct. 6, 2004: The ethics committee rebukes DeLay for involving the Federal Aviation Administration in a partisan matter --- tracking Texas Democrats who fled the state to avoid a vote on a DeLay-backed congressional redistricting plan --- and for staging a fund-raising event that appeared to link access to him with political donations.
Nov. 17, 2004: House Republicans change a party rule to allow DeLay to remain majority leader if indicted.
Jan. 4, 2005: Under growing pressure from Democrats and some rank-and-file members, Republicans reinstate the indictment rule but make it easier for either party to block ethics committee investigations.
March 2005: Newspaper reports raise questions about two overseas trips by DeLay that were linked to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist and longtime DeLay associate, now under criminal investigation for his tactics in promoting Indian tribes' gambling interests.
April 6, 2005: The New York Times reports DeLay's PAC and campaign have paid his wife, Christine, and daughter, Dani DeLay Ferro, more than $500,000 since 2001. Under federal election regulations, a lawyer tells The Washington Post, "It's clearly legal to pay relatives provided they provide services at the going rate."
April 6, 2005: The Washington Post reports that DeLay took a six-day trip to Russia in 1997 that was financed by private lobbyists hired by the Russian government. DeLay said the trip was dutifully reported and he thought it was paid for by a non-profit group.
(4-10-05, Cox News Service, AJC.)
Sept. 30, 2004: DeLay is admonished by the House ethics committee for offering political support to the son of then-Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) to succeed his father in Congress if Smith changed his 'no' vote on the Medicare prescription drug bill.
Oct. 6, 2004: The ethics committee rebukes DeLay for involving the Federal Aviation Administration in a partisan matter --- tracking Texas Democrats who fled the state to avoid a vote on a DeLay-backed congressional redistricting plan --- and for staging a fund-raising event that appeared to link access to him with political donations.
Nov. 17, 2004: House Republicans change a party rule to allow DeLay to remain majority leader if indicted.
Jan. 4, 2005: Under growing pressure from Democrats and some rank-and-file members, Republicans reinstate the indictment rule but make it easier for either party to block ethics committee investigations.
March 2005: Newspaper reports raise questions about two overseas trips by DeLay that were linked to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist and longtime DeLay associate, now under criminal investigation for his tactics in promoting Indian tribes' gambling interests.
April 6, 2005: The New York Times reports DeLay's PAC and campaign have paid his wife, Christine, and daughter, Dani DeLay Ferro, more than $500,000 since 2001. Under federal election regulations, a lawyer tells The Washington Post, "It's clearly legal to pay relatives provided they provide services at the going rate."
April 6, 2005: The Washington Post reports that DeLay took a six-day trip to Russia in 1997 that was financed by private lobbyists hired by the Russian government. DeLay said the trip was dutifully reported and he thought it was paid for by a non-profit group.
(4-10-05, Cox News Service, AJC.)
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