News -12-06-05 U.S. House Leader's Indictment Not Dismissed (CBS News) "A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money-laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader." "When he was indicted in September, DeLay was required under House rules to relinquish the leadership post he had held since 2003. While Monday's ruling was a partial victory for DeLay, he cannot reclaim his post because he remains under indictment." The judge said "if prosecutors can prove that DeLay and his associates obtained the corporate donations 'with the express intent of converting those funds to the use of individual candidates,' or that they converted money legally collected by sending it to the Republican National Committee and asking for the same amount to be sent back to Texas candidates, 'then they will have established that money was laundered.' " "The alleged campaign-finance scheme had far-reaching political effects: With DeLay's fundraising muscle, the GOP took control of the Texas House for the first time in 130 years, then pushed through a congressional redistricting plan engineered by DeLay that resulted in more Texas Republicans going to Congress." 12-05

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