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Catalina Camia, USA TODAY 11:10 a.m. EDT September 19, 2013
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.(Photo: Jack Plunkett, AP)
A Texas court has overturned the conviction of former House majority leader Tom DeLay in a money-laundering case stemming from the 2002 elections.
The documents were released Thursday by the Texas Court of Appeals in Austin.
"The evidence was legally insufficient to sustain DeLay's convictions," the documents said. The judges said they "reverse the judgments of the trial court" and acquit DeLay, once one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, of all charges.
DeLay was convicted in 2010 for illegally funneling $190,000 in corporate money via the Republican National Committee to help elect Republicans to the Texas Legislature in 2002. He was sentenced to three years on a conspiracy charge and sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering.
DeLay remained free while he was appealing his case. He had long maintained his innocence and denounced what he called the "criminalization of politics."
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Catalina Camia, USA TODAY 11:10 a.m. EDT September 19, 2013
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.(Photo: Jack Plunkett, AP)
A Texas court has overturned the conviction of former House majority leader Tom DeLay in a money-laundering case stemming from the 2002 elections.
The documents were released Thursday by the Texas Court of Appeals in Austin.
"The evidence was legally insufficient to sustain DeLay's convictions," the documents said. The judges said they "reverse the judgments of the trial court" and acquit DeLay, once one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, of all charges.
DeLay was convicted in 2010 for illegally funneling $190,000 in corporate money via the Republican National Committee to help elect Republicans to the Texas Legislature in 2002. He was sentenced to three years on a conspiracy charge and sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering.
DeLay remained free while he was appealing his case. He had long maintained his innocence and denounced what he called the "criminalization of politics."
Follow @ccamia on Twitter.
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