Blunt-Ellis-DeLay Refined Their Money Laundering Scheme In Missouri

Blunt-Ellis-DeLay Refined Their Money Laundering Scheme In Missouri -

Today, former Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted along with longtime DeLay and Blunt staffer, Jim Ellis, for conspiracy to violate Texas campaign finance law.

A consent decree between Blunt's Rely on Your Beliefs Fund and the Missouri Ethics Commission, dated May 23, 2002 (pdf version) reveals that the basic scheme that DeLay and TRMPAC were indicted for yesterday in Texas was perfected by Blunt, DeLay and Ellis in Missouri, as early as 1999 and 2000.

According to news accounts, long before TRMPAC, Jim Ellis ran Tom DeLay's ARMPAC, and Roy Blunt's ROYB Fund.  For over a year in 1999 and 2000, while Ellis ran both PACs, the ROYB Fund failed to file the required disclosure reports with the Missouri Ethics Commission. 

[Story continued at Fired Up! America]