DeLay KONVICTED

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Most of the stuff he got caught doing was accepting favors (campaign donations..free trips etc.) from people that would later come before his committee etc. He also got caught paying highly reduced rental rates. Some of the favors were donations for a foundation in his name. It's ethics stuff. It was abuse of power. I guess the reason it's not being prosecuted (yet,) is because they can't prove a quid pro quo. He also didn't pay tax on rental properties in the Dominican Republic. He now paid those taxes. He didn't pay property tax on some property in New Jersey. He's now paid those taxes. I think the total of these taxes due was from $10-20k. I think tax evasion requires more than just not reporting income. They need to prove that these 3 things below are present, and what he did must not have risen to the level of tax evasion.

1) that an unpaid tax liability exists
2) that there was affirmative action (not just an omission or failure to act) in an attempt to evade either the assessment of a tax or the payment of a tax
3) that the defendant possessed the specific intent to evade a known legal duty to pay the tax

I know if we did that stuff, then, we'd pay a lot of penalties. Not just have to pay the tax.