DeLay sentenced to three years in prison
Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas was sentenced to three years in state prison Monday for conspiring to launder money.
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.