10.07.2005

How is this NOT money laundering?

Key events in the exchange of donations in 2000 between Tom DeLay's political groups and a group belonging to Roy Blunt, the new House majority leader.

* March 31: DeLay's unregulated ARMPAC convention fund donates $50,000 to the Missouri arm of Blunt's ROYB Fund.
* April 7: Blunt's ROYB Fund donates $10,000 to the DeLay Foundation.
* April 7 - May 1: Blunt's ROYBPAC pays $40,000 to Alexander Strategy Group Inc., run by DeLay's former chief of staff Ed Buckham and employing DeLay's wife, Christine.
* May 9:Blunt's ROYB Fund donates $1,000 to the Cancer Research Foundation of America through Jim Ellis, a DeLay fundraiser.
* May 19: Blunt's ROYB Fund pays $968.03 to Ellis' company.
* May 24: ARMPAC convention fund contributes $100,000 more to Blunt's ROYB Fund.
* May 25-June 3: DeLay takes trip to Scotland and England arranged by Abramoff and partly funded by Abramoff's clients.
* June 15: Blunt's ROYBPAC contributes $100,000 to Missouri Republican Party.
* July 25: Missouri GOP spends $11,174 on behalf of Matt Blunt's successful secretary of state campaign in Missouri. It's the first of more than $160,000 the state GOP gives Blunt's son after his father's donation.
* Oct. 26: DeLay's ARMPAC non-federal account contributes $50,000 to Missouri Republican Party.
* Nov. 7: Matt Blunt wins election for Missouri secretary of state.
* Nov.28-Dec. 31: Missouri Republican Party contributes $50,000 back to DeLay's ARMPAC non-federal account, according to DeLay's group's tax filing.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-delay-chronology,0,6748505,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

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