Complaint Against DeLay Sent to Panel(fate unkown w/Indictments in TX PAC)

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-congress-ethics.html

September 20, 2004
Complaint Against House Leader Sent to Panel
By REUTERS

Filed at 11:24 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ethics complaint against House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, was placed on an uncertain path on Monday that could lead to a full-blown investigation, dismissal or partisan deadlock.

House ethics committee chairman Joel Hefley, a Colorado Republican, and Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia, the panel's top Democrat, announced they had moved to put the complaint on the agenda of the 10-member committee.

``In the near future we will be presenting to the committee the information we have obtained and recommendations for committee action,'' they said in a brief statement after a three-month review.

Several congressional aides and a citizens' watchdog group said the committee -- five Republicans and five Democrats -- may split along party lines and do nothing. That would allow the complaint to effectively die at the end of this year.

Aides said, however, that the committee might find a consensus and take action, such as ordering further inquiry, dismissing the complaint or issuing a letter of reprimand.<snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Election-Investigation.html

Several Indicted in Texas PAC Probe (DeLay was not charged)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 2:36 p.m. ET

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Several people and corporations -- including Sears and Cracker Barrel -- were indicted Tuesday on charges of making illegal campaign contributions through a political action committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.<snip>

The grand jury has been investigating whether corporate funds were used illegally to help Republican candidates win elections in 2002 that gave the GOP a majority in the Texas House for the first time since Reconstruction.

Those charged included three members of DeLay's PAC, Texans for a Republican Majority: John Colyandro, James Ellis and Warren RoBold.

[Catfight]

1. He should already be under investigation, what is the hold up? n/t