Tom Delay , indicted for money laundering $190,000 in corporate contributions used in Texas state elections.
"A Texas grand jury indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) yesterday on a charge of criminally conspiring with two political associates to inject illegal corporate contributions into 2002 state elections that helped the Republican Party reorder the congressional map in Texas and cement its control of the House in Washington."
Tom Delay Indicted in Texas Finance PRobe "At issue is $190,000 in corporate donations that the director of Texans for a Republican Majority sent to the Republican National State Elections Committee in mid-September 2002. Three weeks later, the committee sent checks in the equivalent amount that had been raised from individual donors to seven Republican statehouse candidates supported by TRMPAC. Texas law prohibits the use of corporate funds in election campaigns."
DeLay PAC Trial Looks at Money-Laundering Claims