Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison
AUSTIN, Texas Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been sentenced to three years in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, the brash Texan who helped build and tightly control a Republican majority in his chamber until resigning in 2005, was sentenced by a state judge yesterday to three years in prison for illegally plotting to funnel corporate contributions to Texas legislative candidates.