Raw Story And NY Times Report: Texas Prosecutor Subpoenas Records Showing DeLay-Blunt Ties

According to Raw Story, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle has subpoenaed the records of DeLay's ARMPAC and is also seeking records which show contributions to the Missouri Republican Party and Roy Blunt's Rely On Your Belief's PAC.

Update November 16--10:50 pm: The NY Times now has this story:

Texas prosecutors in the criminal case against Rep. Tom DeLay issued a subpoena on Wednesday for records of transactions between his
national political action committee and a political committee run by
his successor as House majority leader, Roy Blunt of Missouri.

The subpoena, issued in Austin, the Texas capital, asked for all
records from Mr. DeLay's committee, Americans for a Republican
Majority, about its contributions from 2000 to 2002 to Mr. Blunt's
committee, Rely on Your Own Beliefs Fund, and to the state Republican
Party in Missouri, where Mr. Blunt's son is governor.

The subpoena offered no explanation of why prosecutors wanted the
records, although news reports have recently questioned why thousands
of dollars raised by Mr. DeLay and his committee to entertain delegates
at the 2000 Republican convention were shifted to Mr. Blunt's committee.

Of course loyal Fired Up! readers are already familiar with these transactions, as we have been covering them since June of this year. For folks looking for more background on Roy Blunt, click here.

Submitted by Roy Temple on November 16, 2005 - 11:28pm
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Here's the AP story on the new subpoenas

Submitted by Roy Temple on November 17, 2005 - 3:39pm.

Here's the AP story on the new subpoenas that ask for records relating to Roy Blunt's political committee and the Missouri Republican Party.

Also yesterday, Earle filed subpoenas for Texas bank records for
DeLay’s national political committee, Americans for a Republican
Majority, or ARMPAC, and records of contributions the committee made to
the Missouri Republican Party and the Rely on Your Own Beliefs Fund.
The Rely fund is operated by Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, who took over
as majority leader when DeLay was forced to step down in September
because of the felony indictments.

An Associated Press report last month, citing campaign documents, said
DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at
the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to
Blunt.

When the money shifting stopped, the beneficiaries were DeLay’s private
charity, a consulting firm that employed DeLay’s wife and the campaign
of Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, Roy Blunt’s son. A aide to the governor
told the AP then that some money could have been routed to state
candidates. The transactions raise questions about whether donors were
deceived or the true destination of their money was concealed.

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It's a bad day to be Roy Blunt

Submitted by Roy Temple on November 17, 2005 - 9:59am.

Here's a national AP story from the CREW website that mentions Roy Blunt's repeated inverventions with the Department of Interior on behalf of Jack Abramoff's Indian gaming clients.

House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, signed three
letters to Norton. He took $1,000 from Abramoff and $2,000 from the
lobbyist's firm around the time he sent a May 2003 letter.

Here's an AP graphic on this story and here's video of John Solomon, Investigative Editor of AP explaining the story.   Here's previous Fired Up! coverage on Blunt's letter writing campaign.

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Who's going to prosecute in Missouri?

Submitted by Libertarian Kevin on November 17, 2005 - 8:36am.

So who will prosecute this in Missouri?  Is there a prosecutor anywhere in the AOG-stronghold of the nation willing to do it?  Hey, what about using one of our FINE US Attorneys!  Ummm, well Todd Graves ... no, too many close (R-K Street) ties ... hey, then what about Catherine Hanaway (R-Matt Blunt) ... well darn!  Hey Jay!  Got a minute?

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