DeLay defense fund takes in $250,000 - Kansas City Star | 03/13/2005 |

Kansas City Star | 03/13/2005 | DeLay defense fund takes in $250,000:

"WASHINGTON — A legal defense fund established by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, has dramatically expanded its fund-raising effort in recent months.
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The list of recent donors includes dozens of DeLay's House Republican colleagues, including two lawmakers who were placed on the House Ethics Committee this year, and several of the nation's largest corporations and their executives.

Among the corporate donors to the defense fund is Bacardi USA, the Florida-based rum maker, which also has been indicted in the Texas investigation, and Reliant Energy, another major contributor to a Texas political action committee formed by DeLay that is the focus of the criminal inquiry."