The Tom Delay money laundering indictment is full of holes a mile wide, and what looks like a conspiracy to indict. The first grand jsury would not indict on the original conspiracy charge because what Delay did was not against Texas law at the time. The second grand jury was asked to make an indictment for money laundering, and they did not see sufficient evidence to indict. My understanding of the legal process is limited, but what happened next is what makes this look very suspicious. When a grand jury refuses to indict, then a judge is supposed to sign something called a "no-bill" which is then made public, basically saying that there was not enough evidence for an indictment. The 2nd jury had made their decision on a Friday, yet somehow no one bothered to get a judge to sign the no-bill. This is supposed to be an immediate thing. So on Monday, knowing that the information that the jury refused to indict was not released publicly, the D.A. quickly got yet another grand jury together and got them to indict. Do you think some of them might have been had a different mindset had they known that the previous jury refused to indict, which is a fact that they are legally allowed to know, assuming the no-bill was signed? And furthermore the foreman of the jury said in a statement to the press that he had made up his mind to idict before he stepped in the courtroom because he didn't like campaign ads that Delay had run. Sounds to me like the D.A. is trying to cheat the system to get himself in the news, and the indictment should be thrown out since the foreman admitted that he had prejudged the case.

Delay might be scum, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was laudnering money, but our legal system still has rules, and the other side is not following them.