Thomas Dale DeLay v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The moment, the moment that the decision was made to send the soft dollar check up to Washington, D.C. with the intent that it ultimately go to candidates for elective office is the moment that this money be came proceeds of criminal activity, specifically, a third-degree felony. [[Image here]] This agreement, this — this agreement with the names of the candidates and the corresponding amounts is what separates this transaction from any other swap that anyone else in the [sic] history has done. It is this agreement that makes it money laundering.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Delay, Thomas Dale · Delay v. State

2. “knowingly accept” an illegal campaign contribution, under Section 253.003(b) of the Election Code. See id. § 253.003(b) ("A person may not knowingly accept a political contribution the person knows to have been made in violation of this chapter.”). As we have already observed, however, this theory of how the corporate political contributions may have constituted the "proceeds of criminal activity”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Delay v. State