Fwd: [DemocraticResearch] Craddick paid legal fee with campaign fund

Submitted by PAAMember on December 21, 2005 - 3:00pm. ::


TOM BLACKWELL <> wrote:

Craddick paid legal fee with campaign fund

$75,000 went to lawyer in the speaker's bid to avoid indictment in spending probe

Associated Press

AUSTIN - Republican Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick paid his lawyer more than $75,000 from his campaign fund in his bid to avoid indictment in the election-spending investigation that led to criminal charges against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay.