MSNBC: Breaking news. This is from a different grand jury (?). So, he faces two separate indictments.
Lou Dobbs on CNN is confirming via an A.P. wire.
Update [2005-10-4 16:15:59 by susanhu]:
Alternet’s PEEK has “Peek: DeLay Grand Jury foreman speaks (video).”
‘There is enough evidence.’ For more than one indictment perhaps?
From PBS Newshour
October 4, 2005, 12:15pm EDT
DELAY INDICTED ON NEW MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGE
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was indicted again Monday on charges of conspiring to launder money and money laundering, following an indictment last week that caused him to step down from his leadership post.
Sept. 28, 2005:
Two experts discuss the first indictment of Tom DeLay.
The money laundering charge carries a penalty of up to life in prison. The charge of conspiracy to launder money is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, reported the Associated Press.
Last week, DeLay was charged with conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws. Defense lawyers asked a judge Monday to toss out the indictment, contending it was based on a statute that did not take effect until 2003, a year after the alleged acts.
The new indictment from District Attorney Ronnie Earle came just hours after the new grand jurors in Texas were sworn in.
“Ronnie Earle has stooped to a new low with his brand of prosecutorial abuse,” Delay said in a statement.
“He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a ‘do-over’ since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice.”
A statement from Earle’s office outlined the new charges but did not address DeLay’s criticism.
More than 40 grand jury indictments have been returned so far in Earle’s two-and-a-half-year investigation of Republican campaign tactics during 2002 state House elections in Texas …
