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CCA Pays House Majority Leader’s Personal Charity $100,000
Loaded on April 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2005, page 22
By Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Contractor Misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Elections,
Lobbying,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Crime,
Conspiracy.
Location:
Texas.
In August, 2004, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) gave House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, (R) Sugar Land, Texas, a check for $100,000 for his DeLay Foundation for Kids during a Lexington, Kentucky, political fund raiser for DeLay’s defense fund organized by Representative Hal Rogers, senior congressman …
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