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DeLay: I Don't Need To Testify Now That Lawyers Played '05 Fox News Interview

Rachel Slajda | November 19, 2010, 9:55AM

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX)

Testimony ended yesterday in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's money laundering trial in Texas without DeLay himself ever taking the stand.

Prosecutors did, however, play two interviews DeLay gave when he was indicted in 2005: One to investigators, and one to Fox News' Chris Wallace.

From the Austin-American Statesman:

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Topics: Corruption, Jim Ellis, Texas, Tom DeLay

DeLay Money Laundering Case May Finally Be Headed To Trial

Justin Elliott | April 29, 2010, 4:38PM

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX)

Five years after he was charged with conspiracy and money laundering in an alleged scheme to funnel corporate money into the 2002 Texas elections, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay may soon stand trial after a ruling by a state appeals court cleared perhaps the final remaining obstacles in the case.

And his lawyer tells TPMmuckraker DeLay couldn't be happier with the state of the case.

"He wants to go to trial. He's been wanting to go to trial from the very beginning," says Dick DeGuerin, the high-profile Texas defense attorney who is representing DeLay. "There's no evidence by any stretch of the imagination that could convict him."