DeLay sentenced to three years
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.
Neldon Neal's sentencing date was delayed Tuesday because the defendant remained in the Missouri Department of Corrections rather than in Waynesville, a Pulaski County Circuit Court official said this afternoon.