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A Texas court of appeals overturned the 2010 money laundering conviction of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay R-Texas . DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison in 2010, for his alleged scheme to illegally influence Texas elections in 2002. Prosecutors claimed that DeLay and two associates conspired to send $190,000 in corporate money from his Texas PAC to the Republican National Committee. The RNC then distributed the money to Republican candidates for the state House of Representatives. This money allowed Republicans to take control of the state House and pass a redistricting plan which sent more Republicans to Congress in 2004.Thursday, the court found there was insufficient evidence to support the case and acquitted DeLay of all charges. DeLay attorney, Brian Wice, told the Associated Press stanley cup that the former congressman is ecstatic, gratified, and a little bit numb.H/T Jordan Vesey Support Provided By: Learn more Support PBS News: Educate your inboxSubscribe to Herersquo the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you wonrsquo;t find anywhere else. stanley cup stanley cup Full Episode Fdcd EU wants to end golden passport schemes to target Russian oligarchs
Judge Colonel James Pohl also sentenced Frederick to a dishonorable discharge, reduction in rank to private and a forfeiture of pay.Frederick lawyer Gary Myers said the sentence was excessive and that he plans on appealing the decision.We will seek to try to achieve a sentence reduction, Myers said, accord stanley cup ing to the Washington Post.The Abu Ghraib prison scandal erupted after photographs e stanley cup xposing the abuses were published in April.Frederick, the highest ranked officer involved in the scandal, agreed to a plea bargain in which he pleaded guilty to eight of 12 criminal counts and, in return, the court reduced his sentence from 10 to eight years.The charges included hitting a detainee in the chest so hard that he had to be resuscitated and forcing detainees to masturbate. Frederick also pleaded guilty to attaching wires to a man forced to stand on a box and telling the detainee he would be electrocuted if he stepped off the box.Frederick, 38, acknowledged that his behavior had been excessive.I was wrong about what I did, and I shouldn ;t have done it, Frederick said, according to the Washington Post. I knew it was wrong at the time because I knew it wa af1 s a form of abuse.Frederick, who also works as a civilian prison guard, told the court that military intelligence and civilian interrogators created an atmosphere that spawned the abuses. They would tell us what conditions to set for them keep their clothes, give them ci