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Tom DeLay

Tom DeLay, a former members of the U.S. House and Texas House, is a former House majority leader. He resigned his seat in June 2006. In 2010, a Travis County jury convicted him of laundering corporate donations to help Texas House candidates in 2002, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the convictions Oct. 1, 2014.

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